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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (596131)	12/23/2010 10:01:08 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 1570939

Obama’s Allies Make Peace with Indefinite Detention John on December 22, 2010 at 7:35 pm Can you image this sort of comment from the American Prospect during the Bush years? "Yesterday, the Obama administration indicated to reporters that long-awaited action codifying the Bush-era policy of indefinite detention for suspected terrorists would be put in place through executive order." So how bad is this? It’s both very bad and an improvement over the status quo–and a significant improvement from the detention review policies the Bush administration put in place. After a rundown of fairly timid griping about the policy, Serwer spins out some positives: The Obama administration proposal differs from the Bush administration detention review process in that it would be more adversarial — detainees would be represented by a lawyer, and the boards would be made up of more than just military officials. The process would be, as the New York Times‘ Charlie Savage describes it, basically a kind of “parole board” for suspected terrorists… The administration could argue that by doing this by executive order, it’s avoiding more constraints on detainee rights that would likely be the result of going through a Republican Congress. An executive order also means indefinite detention isn’t a “permanent” fixture of American law. So Obama gets points for letting lawyers agitate for the release of these detainees once a year and for avoiding any permanent resolution of the problem by law. I’m thinking these would have been portrayed as icing on a turd a few years ago. But now the Center for American Progress is saying nice things about what a big improvement this is. I’ll believe they genuinely care about indefinite detention when I see the full page President Betray-Us ad from MoveOn.org. Liberals don't care about the issue. They only care about siding with terrorists against Republicans. Politics first, national security last. verumserum.com

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