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Comments from Left Field: Obama Preparing Executive Order to Allow Preventive Detention
Sister Toldjah: Score another one for President Bush’s WOT policies
Althouse: "Agreeing with conclusions reached years earlier by the Bush administration: As many as 90 detainees cannot be charged or released."
Obama Preparing Executive Order to Allow Preventive Detention
Comments from Left Field —
Or maybe not.
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
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White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said there is no executive order and that the administration has not decided whether to issue one. But one ...
Score another one for President Bush’s WOT policies
Sister Toldjah —
More “change” you can believe in (via Andrew Malcolm):
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can ...
"Agreeing with conclusions reached years earlier by the Bush administration: As many as 90 detainees cannot be charged or released."
Althouse —
After promising to close Guantanamo, Obama is facing reality: On the day Obama took office, 242 men were imprisoned at Guantanamo. In his May speech, the president outlined five strategies the administration would use to deal with them: criminal trials, revamped military tribunals, transfers to other countries, releases and continued detention. Since the inauguration, 11 detainees have been released or transferred, one prisoner committed suicide, and one was moved to New York to face terrorism charges in federal court. Administration officials said ...
Definite and indefinite endings
TigerHawk —
Of course, by now everybody who reads blogs knows that Barack Obama is preparing an executive order that would "reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely." At this point there is little to add to the ...
Obama Copies Bush
PoliGazette —
... As a result it became clear yesterday that President Obama is willing to give in on at least one of the two major national security issues: ...
Executive order, indefinite detention
Political Animal —
... who pose a clear danger to the American people," and the president described what was, in effect, a system of indefinite detention without charges. Obama added that his administration would submit such a system to checks and balances, and "will work with Congress to develop an appropriate legal regime so that our efforts are consistent with our values and our Constitution." The administration has since come realize that working with Congress on this is practically impossible, so a new approach is under consideration . Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with ...
Barack Obama Takes Away Your Right to a Criminal Trial!
PoliGazette —
... Or, that is how I’d imagine the headline would go on a lefty blog, if this were George W. Bush enacting an executive order allowing indefinite detention of detainees. Lest we forget their hysteria over denying detainees the writ of habeus corpus, deceitfully suggesting that it applied to American citizens as well. Some lefty blogs are giving the news of the EO ...
Bushism on Steroids: Obama Drafts Executive Order for Indefinite Detention
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... The Obama Administration is drafting an executive order that would give President Obama the power of indefinite detention: ...
Obama, Like Bush, Wrong On Indefinite Detention
Newshoggers.com —
... report for the Washington Post which says that the Obama administration is drafting an executive order to reassert Bush's claimed presidential authority to lock up detainees forever without trial. ...
"White House Weighs Order on Detention; Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely."
How Appealing —
"White House Weighs Order on Detention; Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely." This article appears today in The Washington Post. ...
Preventive Detention By Executive Order
The Moderate Voice —
... That is what Barack Obama is now planning, according to an article by Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn in the Washington Post. The article, which I blogged about last night, at ...
White House Denies Existence of Indefinite Detention Order; ACLU Demands Accountability
Firedoglake —
... Last Friday's news dump included the disturbing rumor that the Obama Administration is considering an executive order for indefinite detention of detainees is US custody. ...
Lt. Col. Barry Wingard has an op-ed in Wapo! "No Justice Today at Guantanamo"
The Political Carnival —
... Unfortunately, nothing seems to have changed. The Obama administration is reportedly considering an executive order that would "reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely," and the situation at the prison itself is worsening.[...] ...
