Comments on: Transcript Of President Obama’s Speech About Guantánamo And Terrorism, May 21, 2009

By: Militant Libertarian » Cleared for Release and Still in Limbo

Militant Libertarian » Cleared for Release and Still in Limbo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:27:09 +0000

[...] a major national-security speech, he described these prisoners as those who “cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to [...]

By: 116 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 171 Still In Limbo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:33:30 +0000

[...] a major national security speech, he described these prisoners as those who “cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to [...]

By: Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:50:04 +0000

[...] then, that, just a month after Carter joined the Obama administration, the President announced, in a major national security speech, that the Commissions were back on the table, and Carter then watched, two weeks ago, as Attorney [...]

By: The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:54:48 +0000

[...] the proposed revival of the Commissions since May, when President Obama first announced it in a major speech on national security, and I remain as confused and depressed about the proposals as I did back then. Glenn Greenwald has [...]

By: Federalist Paupers » Blog Archive

Federalist Paupers » Blog Archive — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:58:57 +0000

[...] drop the ball for the next three years and elect a new president who wavers between being a cynical bastard and being a completely reckless pie-in-the-sky lefty nutcase, as we’re seeing [...]

By: Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize + OK, He’s A Nice Guy, But … by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:33:19 +0000

[...] the Nobel Peace Prize to be given to a man who, although he ordered the closure of Guantánamo and recognizes that it “set back the moral authority” that, in his opinion, “is America’s strongest [...]

By: Congressional Depravity on Gitmo « freedetainees.org

Congressional Depravity on Gitmo « freedetainees.org — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:56:23 +0000

[...] ability to close Guantánamo at all, Holder was echoing important points made by President Obama in a major national security speech in May, when he stated: [W]e will be ill-served by some of the fear-mongering that emerges whenever [...]

By: Lawyer Blasts “Congressional Depravity” On Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:29:47 +0000

By: The Hate will only get stronger - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 11 - City-Data Forum

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:12:58 +0000

[...] to handle a new legal problem. Do you disagree that this needs to be accomplished? Here: Transcript Of President Obama’s Speech About Guantánamo And Terrorism, May 21, 2009 | Andy Worthi… Who would have thought Rachel would get it so right. Too bad she is more honest than the [...]

By: The Hate will only get stronger - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 10 - City-Data Forum

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:17:30 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by nightflight YouTube – RACHEL MADDOW DESTROYS OBAMA ON LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Maddow fan? Who knew. Dont you love that she — Olbermann too — will get after Obama and Democrats if they think they’re going wrong? Unlike the right wing’s "pundits." In this case I think she’s making an unreasonable and faux-naive complaint, though. There *is* a difference between Bush’s forget-em standards and what Obama is trying to work out, which is uncharted territory. "I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantanamo detainees – not to avoid one. In our constitutional system, prolonged detention should not be the decision of any one man. If and when we determine that the United States must hold individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war, we will do so within a system that involves judicial and congressional oversight." He explains exactly and clearly what the dilemma is, and what the Obama DoJ is aiming for in creating a new legal framework to handle a new legal problem. Here: Transcript Of President Obama’s Speech About Guantánamo And Terrorism, May 21, 2009 | Andy Worthi… [...]