Obama was on with George Stephanopoulos this morning and I dare say the left is a bit peeved, at least a little. He tells George that closing Gitmo is a bit more difficult then he would of imagined.
I think it’s going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do
~~~It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize
~~~Part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication. And some of the evidence against them may be tainted even though it’s true. And so how to balance creating a process that adheres to rule of law, habeas corpus, basic principles of Anglo-American legal system, by doing it in a way that doesn’t result in releasing people who are intent on blowing us up.
Either way, he will close Gitmo…saying he doesn’t want to be ambiguous.
I don’t want to be ambiguous about this. We are going to close Guantanamo and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our Constitution. That is not only the right thing to do but it actually has to be part of our broader national security strategy because we will send a message to the world that we are serious about our values.
Obama ambiguous? Serious about values? Yeeeaah. Keeping the most dangerous terrorists caught on the battlefield locked up is against our values to our new President. Not surprising, not shocking, not unexpected coming from this leftist. But disappointing.
He threw a bone out to the left however when he said he may investigate “possible” crimes committed by the Bush administration. Pure and utter hogwash but he has to appease the one’s who put him in that office. No crimes were committed….pure and simple. The left would of impeached already if there had been.
He also said that waterboarding is torture and he won’t allow it. Why allow something that works? That already disrupted dozens of al-Qaeda attacks?
Al-Qaeda logistics chief Zayn Abidin Muhammed Hussein Abu Zubaydah was interrogated in 2002 using the old tried and true techniques that got no where. They waterboarded him and in 35 seconds he cracked and gave up vital information about what al-Qaeda was planning. Lives were saved.
It’s been done 3 times when our country needed information from those who had killed 3,000 of our citizens. It’s only done during the most extroidinary of needs. But in Obama’s mind it needs to be banned. In our enemies eyes we are once again a paper tiger.
Finally he uttered the Socialist mantra, “We’re going to have to sacrifice for the greater good.”
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
You can watch the whole interview below in three parts:
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