July 20, 2009
Tomorrow barry’s minions were to have a report ready detailing barry’s policy on detaining terror suspects. Something Gibbs has been tap dancing around. Instead, the task forces have been given extensions: detention policy – 6 months and interrogation policy – 2 months. So that means the detention policy task force report will be due on the anniversary of his executive order that said he would have Guantanamo Bay shut down in a year. How can that be take as anything other than evidence that it will not be closed as promised?
ACLU’s Executive Director ANTHONY ROMERO:
The Obama administration must not slip into the same legal swamp that engulfed the Bush administration with its failed Guantanamo policies. Any effort to revamp the failed Guantanamo military commissions or enact a law to give any president the power to hold individuals indefinitely and without charge or trial is sure to be challenged in court and it will take years before justice is served.
The only way to make good on President Obama’s promise to shut down Guantanamo and end the military commissions is to charge and try the detainees in established federal criminal courts. Any effort to do otherwise will doom the Obama administration to lengthy litigation. A promise deferred could soon become a promise broken.
Source: CNN
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