Comments on: Catch-And-Release Program For Terrorists Has Interesting Results http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/13/catch-and-release-program-for-terrorists-has-interesting-results/ Defending the liberal tradition in history, science, and philosophy. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:50:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dean Esmay http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/13/catch-and-release-program-for-terrorists-has-interesting-results/#comment-167448 Dean Esmay Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:17:26 +0000 http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/13/catch-and-release-program-for-terrorists-has-interesting-results/#comment-167448 He said he would close Gitmo within 100 days of taking office. He's already backpedaled on that. Now that he's actually won, he has to look at what the actual results of his promises would be, and apparently is mature enough to know he SHOULD backpedal. My predictions have less to do with him than his fervent supporters who made such an issue of this. He said he would close Gitmo within 100 days of taking office. He’s already backpedaled on that. Now that he’s actually won, he has to look at what the actual results of his promises would be, and apparently is mature enough to know he SHOULD backpedal. My predictions have less to do with him than his fervent supporters who made such an issue of this.

]]> By: Mc Kiernan http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/13/catch-and-release-program-for-terrorists-has-interesting-results/#comment-167447 Mc Kiernan Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:15:16 +0000 http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/13/catch-and-release-program-for-terrorists-has-interesting-results/#comment-167447 Well, I believe you left enough room to support whatever happens --- to fall within the parameter -- of supporting your arguments either way. Not that that is of necessity a poorly thought out position. Definitely, the Pentagon has their supportive stances regarding the matter of Gitmo and one that needs be recognized. President-elect Obama is by nature a "legal" guy that recognizes it is strongly not mainstream Constitutional thinking that habeus corpus can be suspend indefinitely. Obama hasn't yet back-pedaled --- does he not seek a way to <em>legally</em> dispense these cases --- without jeopardizing national security ? On the other hand, some of those detainees cases are so complex that juridical prosecution is prohibitive. War seems to do that kind of stuff. President Obama will close Gitmo, (it may take time) and he will score well earned political advantage --- perhaps for the sole reason that it was a huge error to bring those terrorists into this hemisphere notwithstanding the apparent goal of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to bring them into Virginia or Maryland. One might think that is a very huge important national principle that President Obama should initiate. Well, I believe you left enough room to support whatever happens — to fall within the parameter — of supporting your arguments either way. Not that that is of necessity a poorly thought out position.

Definitely, the Pentagon has their supportive stances regarding the matter of Gitmo and one that needs be recognized.

President-elect Obama is by nature a "legal" guy that recognizes it is strongly not mainstream Constitutional thinking that habeus corpus can be suspend indefinitely.

Obama hasn’t yet back-pedaled — does he not seek a way to legally dispense these cases — without jeopardizing national security ? On the other hand,
some of those detainees cases are so complex that juridical prosecution is prohibitive. War seems to do that kind of stuff.

President Obama will close Gitmo, (it may take time) and he will score well earned political advantage — perhaps for the sole reason that it was a huge error to bring those terrorists into this hemisphere notwithstanding the apparent goal of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to bring them into Virginia or Maryland.

One might think that is a very huge important national principle that President Obama should initiate.

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