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Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Obama reverses course on Gitmo
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And even Barack Obama can do the right thing at least once in his presidency. In this case his Fierce Moral Urgency of Change met the intractable problem of the mutts locked up at Gitmo and...
President Obama on Monday reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, permitting military trials to resume with revamped procedures but implicitly admitting the failure of his pledge to close the prison camp.
Those "revamped procedures"? They're a George W. Bush retread too!
By executive order, a new panel will now also conduct a "periodic review" of detentions. But the bipartisan Military Commissions Act of 2006, or MCA, had already included "administrative review boards" dedicated to the same goal.
I'd like to be there when
Frank Askin's head explodes.
Posted at 23:34 by Chris Wysocki
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