The Obama administration has decided not to seek new legislation from Congress authorizing the indefinite detention of about 50 terrorism suspects being held without charges at at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday.When something like this happens, I like to think well, Obama knows what he's doing more than me, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. However, in this case I gotta call BULLSHIT on him. Fucking nonsense. Shit's wrong.
Instead, the administration will continue to hold the detainees without bringing them to trial based on the power it says it has under the Congressional resolution passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, authorizing the president to use force against forces of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
In concluding that it does not need specific permission from Congress to hold detainees without charges, the Obama administration is adopting one of the arguments advanced by the Bush administration in years of debates about detention policies.
Maybe he can launch some pre-emptive wars too? "The Obama Doctrine"?
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Sorry. Dude does know what he's doing more than you. Driving the bus is harder than perpetually bitching that it's late.
I am comforted by the continuity of our Nazi policy!
the very blanket of freedom we will sleep under tonight!! (me, prolly with some loose bitches)
;)
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