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Jules Crittenden —
... Thomas Joscelyn on the unpleasant surprise awaiting the Obama admin re Gitmo. Clear and Present Danger :… the important point for much of the commentariat is that Guantánamo will be shuttered. For Guantánamo’s many critics, the facility long ago became a symbol of all that is wrong with the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror-from its cowboy-like unilateralism to its alleged widespread torture and abuse of terrorist suspects. That many dangerous enemies lurk in Guantánamo’s cells has often been a secondary concern, if a concern at all. Crittenden on ...
Close Guantanamo Bay?
Power Line —
... For the last six months, terrorism expert Tom Joscelyn has been studying the thousands of pages of unclassified information that have been made available about the approximately 250 terrorists and terrorist supporters still held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. He begins his report on that review in the current Weekly Standard. ...
Dark Side Daily
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... Shiver: “It is not clear from the early press reports whether the Obama administration will continue preventive detention in any form. Some accounts suggest that the president-elect wants to abandon it entirely . . . “ Rule of law may rule. Yikes. ...
Gitmo “Guests” - Clear And Present Dangers
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guantánamo are there for good reason.
by Thomas Joscelyn - (Weekly Standard)
On Sunday, November 16, CBS News’s 60 Minutes broadcast the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama. The exchange touched on a wide range of topics, from Obama’s distaste for college football’s computerized selection of a national champion to his plans for changing course in economic and foreign policy. At one point, Obama was asked about the ...
How Long Will It Take For Obama’s Decision To Close Gitmo To Burn Him?
Say Anything —
... During the election Obama promised on multiple occasions to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility currently being used to house detainees in the war on terror. Here’s an example of what he said: ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Clear and Present Danger - The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guantánamo are there for good reason. by Thomas Joscelyn ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Clear and Present Danger - The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guantánamo are there for good reason. by Thomas Joscelyn ...
Close Gitmo?
Weekly Standard Blog —
Rasmussen reports:
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) say the United States should not close the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba....
Only 32% of voters say the Guantanamo prison camp should be closed, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. One-out-of-five (19%) are undecided.
The new findings mark a drop in support for the special prison camp for terrorists where the United States detains about 250 inmates. In a survey in late July, 59% said Guantanamo should be kept open, while 26% said it should be closed.
I don't know why support for keeping the prison ...
Close Gitmo? Harder than you think
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Close Gitmo? Harder than you think posted at 1:20 pm on November 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Thomas Jocelyn provides an excellent analysis of the effort pledged by Barack Obama to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama has reiterated his promise to shutter Gitmo since the election, but he may find that more difficult than he thinks. More importantly, Obama hasn’t offered much of a vision as to how he’ll handle future high-value detainees: The new administration will soon discover from its review of the Guantánamo files what motivated its predecessor: ...
Closing Gitmo May Be Harder Than Obama Thinks
Stop The ACLU —
Returning to the pre-911 mindset of dealing with terrorists as ordinary criminals, or what the left call the rule of law, is a step backwards the ACLU have pushed for and President-elect Obama has promised in closing Gitmo and giving terrorist trials in American courts. Obama may soon find out that his promise is going to be harder to keep than he expects. ...
Bin Laden's Driver Going Home to Yemen
The Jawa Report —
... : Osama Bin Laden's former driver is to be extradited to his homeland, Yemen, later this week. Salim Hamdan is currently being held at the Guantánamo Bay United States detention camp in Cuba. This year, he was found guilty of supporting terrorism and was handed down a five and a half year jail term. He will serve the remainder of his sentence in Yemen. As he has already served most of his term at Guantánamo Bay, he will be released at the end of the year. This is an EXCELLENT article at the Weekly Standard by Thomas Joscyln. It analyzes the risk factors for returning the ...
Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies
Antiwar.com Original —
S even years ago, on Jan. 11, 2002, when photos of the first orange-clad detainees to arrive at a hastily erected prison at Guant namo Bay, Cuba were made available to the world's press, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reacted to the widespread uproar that greeted the images of the kneeling, shackled men, wearing masks and blacked-out goggles and with earphones completing their sensory deprivation, by stating ...
McCarthy: Obamas Third Way: Release the Terrorists
Articles on National Review Online —
L et s imagine we ve captured a highly trained terrorist al-Qaeda was attempting to embed in the United States, la Mohamed Atta and company, to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities. For eight years, our national-security debate in the United States has been divided into two camps on these cases. In the first are those who accept the post-9/11 law-of-war paradigm. They would have that enemy combatant detained for intelligence purposes (and to remove him from the battlefield) until he could be tried for war crimes by a military commission, and then either executed or imprisoned for life. In the second are those who uphold the pre-9/11 law-enforcement paradigm. ...
