Ha Ha
Sorry, that’s all the commentary I can spit out, with the Cheerios flying at the computer screen and the milk coming out my nose. NYT: US May Revive Military Courts at Guantanamo.
The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.
Officials said the first public moves could come as soon as next week, perhaps in filings to military judges at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, outlining an administration plan to amend the Bush administration’s system to provide more legal protections for terrorism suspects.
Continuing the military commissions in any form would probably prompt sharp criticism from human rights groups as well as some of Mr. Obama’s political allies because the troubled system became an emblem of the effort to use Guantánamo to avoid the American legal system.
Officials who work on the Guantánamo issue say administration lawyers have become concerned that they would face significant obstacles to trying some terrorism suspects in federal courts. Judges might make it difficult to prosecute detainees who were subjected to brutal treatment or for prosecutors to use hearsay evidence gathered by intelligence agencies.
Obama administration officials — and Mr. Obama himself — have said in the past that they were not ruling out prosecutions in the military commission system. But senior officials have emphasized that they prefer to prosecute terrorism suspects in existing American courts. When President Obama suspended Guantánamo cases after his inauguration on Jan. 20, many participants said the military commission system appeared dead.
But in recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.
“The more they look at it,” said one official, “the more commissions don’t look as bad as they did on Jan. 20.”
What are we on, Day 103? I think that Change shark just officially got jumped.
Steyn digs deep to grasp a war-hardened Obama’s long view, and the pending apologism.
Any day now, the new conventional wisdom will emerge: Obama has turned around Bush’s failed war on terror because he’s had the courage to do the tough things that, while not always attractive, are ruthlessly effective.
It’s another miracle of the Age of Obama, that everything that was so wrong can be made right.
Hot Air cruelly notes the Friday night timing of the leak. For those not fully versed in the Dark Arts, that’s the potter’s field where bad news and awkward admissions get buried.
Next thing you know, he’ll be admitting al-Qaeda is our enemy in Iraq. Gateway. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t go so low as to suggest they need to acknowledge Saddam’s Baathist regime had contacts with al-Qaed or supported terrorism or wanted to revive WMD as soon as his Euro pals lifted the sanctions or anything like that.
Now all he has to do is rehabilitate Churchill from that ghastly slur that Churchill wouldn’t do just about anything to save his people and even western civilization from imminent peril. Powerline. Because in a moralism born of utter naivete, Obama may not yet have figured out that in the heat of battle, in mortal combat, ugly things sometimes happen. Of course he can just ask House Speaker Pelosi. She actually knows something about that.
Never forget that the oddly Gumby-like former constitutional lawyer and sockpuppet sometimes known as Greenwald has been out front on the Obama admin’s crimes against humanity, though at last check he’s strangely silent on this one. Must be sleeping in. Also awaiting remonstrations from the broken clock known as Andrew Sullivan, who if I’m not wrong is overdue for a time change.
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Topics: GWOT, Guantanamo, Obama, hated Crusaders
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:44 am on Saturday, May 2, 2009
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May 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 am
[...] UPDATE: From Jules Crittenden: “What are we on, Day 103? I think that Change shark just officially got jumped.” [...]
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 am
And now let’s see how much hypocrisy will spew forth from the Left.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 am
Yes we can!
Dems have to be feeling like Republicans circa 2004 right about now. We all saw what that got the GOP in 2006. I wonder when all this hopenchange will reach critical mass and the Left will turn on him.
Can’t be soon enough in my book.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 am
Heh, I read about this, and I snickered. I can just imagine the reaction of the naive idiots populating the Obama administration to this epiphany: “Golly gee, these people really are dangerous! Ummmmmm…..do we actually want them running around loose? Especially when we are in charge, and would be responsible if something happened on our watch? OH, NOES!!!!”
Which makes Andrew McCarthy’s atomic wedgie to Eric Holder all that sweeter.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:20 am
Why yes, thanks to Arklen Specter, it’s THEIR problem now. Having successfully reached a filibuster-proof majority, and owning both houses and the Oval Office, the Dems got their wishes fulfilled.
Whatever happens now, it;s on THEIR watch, and they own it all.
Ought to make for a most interesting 2010 election cycle, eh? :)
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
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May 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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May 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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May 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
No We Can’t!
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Ought to make for a most interesting 2010 election cycle, eh? :)
Yes, it can! ;-p
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I’m wondering if the ol’ Friday night burial is a trick that the Internet is going to kill. They’re ranting at Kos right now over this, with one of the Kidz saying, “Im sure there will be more buzz around here about this, esp as it unfolds over the next week or so.”
Obama’s base never sleeps!
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
i’m sure there is a nuance to this decision that i’m just too stupid to grasp, but then again, i’m just a typical bitter clingy white person, so i can’t help it.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Yet another exhibit in the case against mindless partisanship.
The screaming about commissions was opportunistic from the beginning. I guess they never figured they’d have to deal with the world they were creating.
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Let’s face it. America has become a three-ring circus, and the Bozos are in charge.
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
All that is left to add is “They told me that if I voted for John McCain, we’d just see a continuation of Bush’s illegal activities and they were right!”
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
As I have commented before,
This administration is to politics as the Special Olympics is to sports.
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
[...] Bush’s policies are like broccoli. They’re really not so bad with a little garlic sauce or butter: The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the [...]
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
[...] Yet another Bush idea suddenly looks not so despicable now that he’s gone (New York Times via Jules Crittenden, emphasis added): US May Revive Military Courts at [...]
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden: Because in a moralism born of utter naivete, Obama may not yet have figured out that in the heat of battle, in mortal combat, ugly things sometimes happen. Of course he can just ask House Speaker Pelosi. She actually knows something about that. [...]
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 am
[...] Crittenden snorted more loudly, and goes into a little more detail. Hot Air points out that the leak came on a Friday night, where awkward announcements and bad [...]
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 am
[...] Obama jumps the Change shark. Ha-Ha indeed! Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Steyn on ObamaMeet the New Boss, [...]
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
The numbers are slowly, steadily starting to fade for Obama. It’s a pop culture thing. The world loved Michael Jackson but when he started doing weird things even the most ardent fans woke up. He’s a sad sack now with only a miniscule following of freakazoids.
This scenario is possible for Obama. Really.
http://www.jourtegrity.blogspot.com
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
[...] last, but not least, Jules Crittenden spits Cheerios all over the floor while reading the latest about [...]
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 pm
“The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.”
Obama is a hypocrite?
Big news.