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Of Any Value?
While we wait to see the specifics of Bush's plan to move CIA detainees to DoD custody, a few questions that ought to be answered: is there any relevance to the transfer of folks who clearly have no intelligence value any longer? Does Bush's new policy mean that the CIA will no longer take hold of these folks? Is ALL that is happening is that guys who likely now have no idea what year it is simply get sent to DoD because the CIA is done with them.
Now tell me that the CIA will close all the ghost prisons and that would be news.
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...is there any relevance to the transfer of folks who clearly have no intelligence value any longer?
Ah ha! So you say. But that's not the President's opinion:
Bush said of the suspects: “These are dangerous men, with unparalleled knowledge about terrorist networks and their plans of new attacks. The security of our nation and the lives of our citizens depend on our ability to learn what these terrorists know.”
September 6, 2006 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
George Bush today acknowledged his guilt in violating the Geneva Conventions, the US Constitution and numerous other American laws. News would be a Republican with the balls to stand up and demand impeachment of the president. Ok, make that Republican or Democrat.
Move on folks. Nothing is happening here. Nothing to see here, just move on.
Hoppy in Sacramento
September 6, 2006 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
The only thing that is relevant to the timing of these transfers is that there are elections in a couple of months.
The President is going to bully Congress into passing his flawed tribunal statute instead of passing one that will withstand Constitutional muster. Why the President is afraid of a Constitutionally valid law is unknown at this point. I am sure the reason will come out over time. I suspect it has to do with the passage in Hamdan v Rumsfeld talking about the protections in Geneva Convention afforded to all prisoners.
Ron Byers
September 7, 2006 9:13 AM | Reply | Permalink