I can't imagine why, can you, readers?
"In another court filing this week, the Obama administration tried to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo.... The filing backs Bush's stance on the authority to hold detainees.... Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold them"
Can't wait for Olbermann's special comment on that! Of course, I'll be waiting a long time (actually, I wouldn't know. I no longer watch the program because I'm tired of political fooleys)
Also see: Obama's Rangers
Obama Buys bin Laden Myth
Obama Will Still Torture
Obama's Torture Trick and the MSM's Magic
Obama Won't Probe Bush War Crimes
Obama Retains Bush's Speechwriters
Obama Invokes Tyranny of State Secrets
Obama Lets Down Liberals
Obama Adopts Bush's Dictatorship
That the CHANGE you wanted, America?
That the CHANGE you VOTED FOR?
"Justice Dept. drops 'enemy combatant'" by Nedra Pickler, Associated Press | March 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said yesterday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key terms in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant.
The Justice Department said in legal filings that it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
But that won't change much for the detainees at the US naval base in Cuba - Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold them. But his Justice Department says that authority comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power, as Bush had argued.
Then why the deceptive headline, MSM, as if things are changing? See what I'm talkin' about, readers?
In another court filing this week, the Obama administration tried to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo.... The filing backs Bush's stance on the authority to hold detainees, even if they were not captured on the battlefield during hostilities....
Which means MORE KIDNAPPINGS, RENDITIONS, and SECRET BLACK-SITE TORTURING!!!
"The argument should be rejected," the Justice Department said in its filing. "Law-of-war principles do not limit the United States' detention authority to this limited category of individuals. A contrary conclusion would improperly reward an enemy that violates the laws of war by operating as a loose network and camouflaging its forces as civilians."
Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Abraham, a former Guantanamo official who has since become critical of the legal process, said it's a change in nothing but semantics.
"There's absolutely no change in the definition," Abraham said in a telephone interview. "To say this is a kinder, more benevolent sense of justice is absolutely false. . . . I think the only thing they've done is try to separate themselves from the energy of the debate" by eliminating Bush's phrasing....
Once again, ANOTHER COSMETIC CHANGE from the slicker-than-shit Obama while the MSM TRUMPETS YET ANOTHER LIE!!!
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Yeah, this IS GETTING OLD, readers.
