Okay. The liberals in the bar last night were freaking out.
People were saying that Senatorial Democrats and President Obama are reneging on their promises to close Guantánamo Bay and move the detainees into our criminal justice system, after Obama announced the return of military tribunals, and the Senate pulled the money to shut down Gitmo.
The reason for both of these actions appears to be escaping the grasp of the media as well as all of my educated and supposedly enlightened drinking companions.
And no, it is not because anybody is scared that a Super Max prisoner might somehow escape, as the Lost in the Woods Republicans are maintaining.
The problem is that if we move the Gitmo prisoners back here, and plug them into our justice system, almost every one of them will have to be released over a lack of evidence.
When we and our allies grabbed these guys off battlefields nobody ever thought it would have to put together a case against them. Even the real "bad guys" have very little evidence against them. Oops.
So although there is zero chance that any of these Enemy Combatants detainees would escape, there's a pretty good chance that we might actually screw ourselves into having to let them go. And no matter how much you love the Constitution, that would be a bad bad idea.
The funny thing is that if we had "winnable cases" against these guys, my post today would've been about how it would be better to bring them to a prison in Nevada, then the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Of course, the media hasn't figured this problem out yet: thank God we have a lawyer for President who is capable of looking at a couple steps down the road.
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Running the country is not nearly as easy as the previous 43 presidents made it look, eh Barry?
ReplyDeleteAnd as was obvious to the less-smitten amongst us, the pollyana gobbledygook he laid on the left to get himself elected was never going to work in reality- a fact that the calculating opportunist Obama likely knew full-well back when he was promising them the moon and the stars.
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Actually if the knuckleheads running the previous administration had fought this "black prison program" out another step or two, they would have realized that shutting the sucker down would be very difficult.
ReplyDeleteObama on the other hand, as a candidate probably didn't realize how little evidence had been collected on these bad guys. Bush/Cheney had never really planned on trying in convicting any of them, so they skipped the entire law enforcement step of gathering evidence.
Because of their ineptitude and lack of vision for the future, Obama is left with a catch 22.
An opportunist Republicans like you, get the advantage of making it look like Bush/Cheney's failure to convict these jackasses in Gitmo, as Obama's fault.
Is it not the cops fault if they screw up the chain of evidence in a prosecution? Seems pretty silly to blame the district attorney(Obama) who gets handed the case eight years later, when it was the Keystone cops (Bush/Cheney) who blew it back in 2002.
Also, revamping health care, creating green initiatives, supporting volunteerism and environmentalism, refuting torture and returning science to its rightful place in our society, is not gobbledygook. Nice try Skippy.