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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: tuolumnejim on May 15, 2009, 02:43:34 PM
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I just love it when DUmmie heads explode. :lmao: :rotf:
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Thu May-14-09 11:22 PM
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In reversal of campaign promise, Obama to continue military tribunals
Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration will announce Friday that it will continue to use military commissions to prosecute some terrorism suspects, current and former officials said -- reversing a campaign promise to abolish the controversial tribunals started under President George W. Bush.
Human rights groups reacted with anger Thursday, arguing that any trials under the commissions would be widely viewed as tainted and that the Obama administration was duplicating Bush's mistakes.
The administration intends to try some of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in federal courts, as President Obama has pledged. But officials have concluded that some detainees can only be tried in military tribunals, said a U.S. official familiar with the changes.
Gabor Rona, the international legal director of Human Rights First, said the international community was unlikely to view the tribunals as legitimate.
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The administration intends to try some of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in federal courts, as President Obama has pledged. But officials have concluded that some detainees can only be tried in military tribunals, said a U.S. official familiar with the changes.
This is actually worse because it makes federal vs. military court totally arbitrary.
We need a federal judge to refuse to preside over a trial because federal courts have no jurisdiction over military affairs conducted in foreign lands.
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This is actually worse because it makes federal vs. military court totally arbitrary.
We need a federal judge to refuse to preside over a trial because federal courts have no jurisdiction over military affairs conducted in foreign lands.
I think that is exactly what will happen. Then Obama can blame the judge for the broken promise.