Obama Avoids Gitmo Detentions by….. Taking No Prisoners…….. Drone Strikes Eliminate Need for Detentions

The administration has made little secret of its near-total reliance on drone operations to fight the war on terror. The ironies abound. Candidate Obama campaigned on narrowing presidential wartime power, closing Guantanamo Bay, trying terrorists in civilian courts, ending enhanced interrogation, and moving away from a wartime approach to terrorism toward a criminal-justice approach. Mr. Obama has avoided these vexing detention issues simply by depriving terrorists of all of their rights—by killing them. (emphasis added)

for full OpEd: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303665904577452271794312802.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

FYI; John Yoo worked for the Bush DOJ, and was one of those targeted by the Obama administration regarding their legal memorandums that greenlighted what the Obama White House has deemed “Torture”.

 

While He’s “Declassifying” Documents & Releasing Photos to Embarass the US, perhaps the Obama should release…. the real Birth certificate, perhaps, or maybe his college records!

Exclusive: Let’s Declassify Obama’s Birth Certificate Along With the ‘Torture’ Memos

Pam Meister

In the Obama administration, a lot of information has been recently declassified and publicly distributed. Memos detailing enhanced interrogation tactics of Jihadist terror detainees (or, as the left defines it, torture) and photos that allegedly show the abuse of these detainees by their American captors are the first – but not likely the last – in the declassification queue.

The intent, in the eyes of our president and his advisors, is noble: to introduce “transparency” and to “make up” for the mistakes of the Bush administration. After all, we want al Qaeda and its copycat Jihadist terror organizations to like us. What better way than to put on the public relations equivalent of a hair shirt and prostrate ourselves in front of those against whom we have “sinned”?

For Full article: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3088/pub_detail.asp

Shepard Smith goes on Impassioned Rant about Torture

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques vs. Torture; Legal Counsel Memos released, but the Memos about the Results remain “Classified”; Obama vs Cheney on a “War of Words”

     President Obama campaigned on the promise of ending “torure”. Of course, he had neither served in combat or intelligence operations, nor had he yet seen the intelligence briefs that “raised the hair on the back of his neck” on November 5th, 2008.

     Thus, he has commenced his campaign promises by ordering Gitmo closed, and in releasing the memos of the Bush Administration from the legal counsels that supported the “enhanced interrogation techniques” of the detained TERRORISTS that came into our custody. A war of words has ensued, with the President changing his statements that “no on should be prosecuted” to “I will leave that up to the Justice Department, and Vice President Cheney requesting the memos on the outcome of the EIT’s be declassified and released.

       So, what is your opinion?