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To: i-node who wrote (473693)	4/20/2009 10:34:53 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1575883

Its been amateur hour in the WH since day one of this Admin. And this is a serious blunder. J.

To: i-node who wrote (473693)	4/20/2009 10:38:46 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1575883

Here's more..... Obama declines to take "yes" for an answer on detaining terrorists Posted by Paul Power Line Jeb Babbin reports that "White House lawyers are refusing to accept the findings of an inter-agency committee that the Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay are too dangerous to release inside the U.S." After President Obama promised to close Gitmo, the White House ordered an inter-agency review of the status of all the detainees. Apparently, it believes that many of those held would be quickly determined releasable. If so, this belief was perhaps naive, considering that a large percentage of the detainees, presumably the comparatively "innocuous" ones, had already been released (some of whom promptly returned to their terrorist ways). The inter-agency committee -- comprised of all the national security agencies -- was told to start with what the Obama administration believed to be the easiest case, that of the seventeen Chinese Muslims, known as Ughurs, who were captured at an al-Queda training camp. According to Babbin, the inter-agency panel found that the Ughurs weren't "the ignorant, innocent goatherds the White House believed them to be." The committee determined they were too dangerous to release because they were members of the ETIM terrorist group, the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement," and because their presence at the al-Queda training camp was no accident (realistically, how it could have been). Babbin's sources in the Defense Department say that "the White House legal office has told the inter-agency review group to re-do their findings to come up with the opposite answer." Would anyone be surprised if, indeed, the Obama administration is overruling the intelligence community in order to implement preconceived policy preference? Would anyone be surprised if those policy preferences include erring on the side of aiding suspected terrorists rather than protecting the United States? As Babbin puts it, "there is now no ETIM terrorist cell in the United States: there will be one if these Uighurs are released into the United States." powerlineblog.com

To: i-node who wrote (473693)	4/21/2009 2:17:44 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575883

I'm a little disappointed in Obama for not at least saying that "just following orders" didn't fly at Nuremberg and it doesn't fly in America. Much MORE important, put the GIVERS of the orders on trial.

To: i-node who wrote (473693)	4/21/2009 1:08:38 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575883

After I read about this accident, I can understand why you would have a negative impression of gov't. To have a road go into a lake without providing any kind of warning is unconscionable. Is this typical? Three boys drowned at Arkansas lake PLUMMERVILLE, Ark., April 20 (UPI) -- Three boys all under the age of 10 drowned in Brewer Lake in Conway County, Ark., when their family vehicle drove into the lake, police say. Police said after 26 year-old Amanda Turley drove her vehicle into Brewer Lake Sunday, volunteers tried in vain to rescue her three sons before they drowned in the body of water near Plumerville, Ark., KATV of Little Rock, Ark., said. Killed in the incident were Turley's sons, Aaron, 8; Alex, 7; and 2 year-old Anthony. KFSM-TV of Fort Smith, Ark., said Turley told police she drove into the lake accidentally after turning onto an old state highway that leads directly to the lake. Read more......... upi.com