"Obama's orders leave torture, indefinite detention intact
On Thursday, President Barack Obama issued executive orders mandating the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in a year’s time, requiring that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and military personnel follow the Army Field Manual’s prohibitions on torture, and closing secret CIA prisons overseas. While the media is portraying these orders as a repudiation of the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration, they actually change little. They essentially represent a public relations effort to refurbish the image of the United States abroad after years of torture and extralegal detentions and shield high-ranking American officials from potential criminal prosecution. The orders signed by Obama do not undo the Bush administration’s attacks on constitutional and international law. They do not challenge the supposed right of the president to unilaterally imprison any individual, without trial and without charges, by declaring him to be an “enemy combatant.” Nor do they end the procedure known as “extraordinary rendition,” by which the United States during the Bush years kidnapped alleged terrorists and shipped them to foreign countries or secret CIA prisons outside the US, where they were subjected to torture."
And he's RIGHT about the MSM, folks. Television is far worse than print, but even they fail. And here is CONFIRMATION!
"The administration also left open the possibility that the CIA and other intelligence agencies may still get more leeway than the US military in how they interrogate terrorism suspects."
WASHINGTON - With a few strokes of his pen, President Obama charted a new path yesterday in the fight against terrorism, signing executive orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and to ban harsh interrogation tactics, such as waterboarding, that the Bush administration endorsed but that critics consider torture....
In remarks to State Department employees, Obama called on the Palestinian militant group Hamas to end its rocket attacks but declared that Israel must reopen its border with Gaza - an underlying factor in the recent flare-up in violence. The speech, which drew enthusiastic applause, capped Obama's second full day in office, one carefully orchestrated to underscore stark changes in foreign policy from his predecessor.
By moving to close the detention center at the Guantanamo naval base and by immediately banning so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques," Obama removed two controversial linchpins of Bush's "war against terror." Obama said he intends to emphasize the rule of law and vowed to restore America's moral standing abroad.
"The message we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism....
Then STOP FIRING MISSILES down on people like you did in Pakistan yesterday!
We think that it is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world," Obama continued. "We intend to win this fight. We're going to win it on our terms."
First thing you can do is EXPOSE the TRUTH about 9/1 and the FRAUD of TERRORISM, 'bamer!!!! It's ALL GOVERNMENT-CREATED, FUNDED and DIRECTED, dude!!!!!!!
As for ALL the OTHER THINGS flowing out of that lie, we can NEVER REGAIN the HIGH GROUND; the best we can do is TELL the TRUTH and APOLOGIZE (monetary compensation must not be ruled out, either).
Despite moving swiftly and decisively, few of Obama's orders will result in quick changes, and several key issues remain unresolved. In a briefing for reporters, senior White House officials could not detail how the president will solve complex legal problems created by closing Guantanamo, including what to do with detainees who can't be tried because of evidence problems but who may be too dangerous to release. The administration also left open the possibility that the CIA and other intelligence agencies may still get more leeway than the US military in how they interrogate terrorism suspects....
Critics of the reforms.... argued yesterday that some of the 245 detainees now at Guantanamo could pose clear threats to national security if released. Pentagon statistics show that of the hundreds of detainees that have been released from Guantanamo since it opened in early 2002, at least 61 have returned to terrorist activities....
That is SUCH GARBAGE PROPAGANDA!!!
Raw Story: Pentagon's terror 'recidivism' claims blasted as 'propaganda'
That's because the FASCISTA POWER STRUCTURE wants to KEEP the TORTURE CHAMBERS OPEN!
So far, only 21 Guantanamo detainees have been charged under special military tribunals.... In the meantime, Obama ordered that the detainees being held at Guantanamo must be treated humanely in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, including regular visits from the International Red Cross, a reversal of Bush administration policies.
Even HITLER ALLOWED the ICRC IN, Amurka!! Still proud of Georgie-boy?
Obama also banned the CIA from operating secret, overseas prisons where the Bush administration permitted harsh interrogation techniques. Although legal scholars and human rights specialists believe some of those techniques - such as subjecting prisoners to the sensation of drowning - constitute torture, Obama will review whether the CIA needs special authority beyond the 19 approved interrogation techniques in the Army Field Manual.
Why does he have to review it (and are they really closing down those secret black site prisons and the floating dungeons of rendition? For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go HERE and scroll down.
Some critics suggest that, by banning harsh interrogations, Obama has jeopardized intelligence agents' ability to obtain quality information for national security....
Notice how the argument is never the LIES that BROUGHT ABOUT such treatment, or the WAR CRIMINAL NATURE of the ACTS? It's just: should we do it, or shouldn't we? Disgusting.
Some of the retired officers who joined Obama said the ban on torture would help restore the trust of US allies who have been outraged by recent US detention policies. "The steps we are taking today will be vital to restoring the trust and level of cooperation necessary," said retired Vice Admiral Lee Gunn.
Oh, so it ISN'T ABOUT doing the RIGHT THING, it's about GEOPOLITIC? Even though there are EXCEPTIONS to the NO-TORTURE RULE?
The actions amount to "tearing down Al Qaeda's prime recruiting poster," added Elisa Massimino, executive director of Human Rights First....
Oh, so EVEN the LEFTY HUMAN RIGHTS person buys into the "Al-CIA-Duh" myth? That EXPLAINS a LOT of their WESTEN-CENTRIC FOCUS and IGNORANCE!!!!!!
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And let the PROPAGANDA ROLL, huh?
BEIRUT - The emergence of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed yesterday that the detention center be shut down within a year.
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the US Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Yeah, I heard about that program: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a US counterintelligence official.
Pfffftttt!!
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Please see:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Okay, we clear on "Al-CIA-Duh" and the dead guy?
Need MORE PROP POOP from the ZIONIST WAR MONGERS?
WASHINGTON - A federal judge has decided to give the Obama administration time to weigh in on some of the legal cases brought by terror detainees held by the United States, and the Supreme Court has granted a delay in the case of an alleged terrorist sleeper agent.
Oh, booga-booga-boo!!! Ya SCARED Amurkn?!!
US District Judge John Bates gave the new president and his Justice Department until February to tell him whether they want to change the government's position on the definition of "enemy combatant." Prisoners from US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan are challenging their detention as so-called enemy combatants in federal court.
"The new presidential administration may wish to review the government's current position regarding the appropriate definition of 'enemy combatant' to be used in these and other habeas cases," Bates said Thursday. The Obama administration has until Feb. 9 to weigh in on Guantanamo Bay cases and Feb. 20 on cases involving detainees at Bagram Airfield.
Oh, God, Bagram!! That's WORSE than GITMO!! For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go HERE and scroll down.
President Obama on Thursday issued several executive orders reining in secretive US counterterrorism policies and ending harsh interrogations. The Supreme Court also granted the administration a month's delay in the case of alleged Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri, the only person being held as an enemy combatant in the United States.
Obviously, the MSM doesn't want to delve into that case of an innocent man indefinitely imprisoned on U.S. soil.
In a related matter, a Saudi militant who was released from Guantanamo Bay after six years of confinement is now a top figure in the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda, a US counterterrorism official confirmed yesterday. Said Ali al-Shihri was released in 2007 to the Saudi government for rehabilitation. He reemerged this week, identified by a militant-leaning website as a top deputy in "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," a Yemeni offshoot of the terror group headed by Osama bin Laden.
Yup, HERE COMES the PROP POOP!!!!!!
The Yemeni branch has been implicated in several attacks on the US Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana.
The YEMEN BRANCH, huh?
Shihri is one of a small number of deputies in the group, the US counterterrorism official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive intelligence.
The militant website, which referred to Shihri under his terror nom de guerre, "Abu Sayyaf al-Shihri," also revealed his Guantanamo prisoner number, 372. The announcement from the militant site came the same day that Obama signed an executive order directing the closure of the jail at Guantanamo Bay within a year.
Yeah, the WEBSITES, ha-ha-ha-ha!!!! Is that SO OBVIOUS or what?
C'mon, Pentagon, you can do BETTER than THAT on the PROPAGANDA with all the $$$$ you spend on it!!!!!
A key question facing Obama's new administration is what to do with the 245 prisoners still confined at Guantanamo. That means finding new detention facilities for hard-core prisoners while trying to determine which detainees are harmless enough to release.
How about LETTING THEM ALL GO since they are either INNOCENT or PATSIES!!!! The TERRORISTS are the TORTURERS!!!!
At least 18 former Guantanamo detainees have "returned to the fight" and another 43 are suspected of resuming terrorist activities, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Jan. 13. He declined to provide the identity of the former detainees or what their terrorist activities were. It is unclear whether Shihri's name would be a new addition to that list of 61.
And as
The HORSESHIT is enough to make you gag, isn't it?
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