The point is, in so many cases we have no idea whether Guantanamo detainees are “the worst of the worst” or mere “woodworkers and farmers.” Why? Because they’re beyond due process. They’re beyond either military or civilian justice because the administration apparently cannot live with being bound by Constitutional limits upon power, making the case that America is essentially undefended unless the president has unlimited freedom of action. This apparently includes the freedom to hold suspects without a trial or even a charge.
Gather evidence. Charge. Try. Convict and punish, or acquit and release. Is there some other course of action that makes any sense?
Of course we could just kill them all, but that might look inhumane.
Speaking of “making a case”, the conundrum that is Guantanamo was pointed up by today’s rejection in the Supreme Court of an appeal filed by two Uighur Muslims who have been in Guantanamo for roughly 4 years, as well as having been deemed “unthreatening” by a military tribunal almost a year ago. No threat, yet not to be released, because the detainees face possible torture or death if they are transferred back to Xinjiang province in China.
I guess they can work on their tans in the balmy Cuban sunshine while they languish. They can’t be allowed to enter the US, so it is said, because that would provide a disadvantageous precedent for other detainees’ lawyers to exploit. Conundrum indeed.
It just gets more intricate and convoluted with each passing day, the White House less and less able to manage the unplanned-for consequences of their decisions, the country less and less able to hold up its collective head with the confidence that it is on the right path.
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The point is, in so many cases we have no idea whether Guantanamo detainees are “the worst of the worst” or mere “woodworkers and farmers.” Why? Because they’re beyond due process. They’re beyond either military or civilian justice because the administration apparently cannot live with being bound by Constitutional limits upon power, making the case that America is essentially undefended unless the president has unlimited freedom of action. This apparently includes the freedom to hold suspects without a trial or even a charge.
Gather evidence. Charge. Try. Convict and punish, or acquit and release. Is there some other course of action that makes any sense?
Of course we could just kill them all, but that might look inhumane.
Speaking of “making a case”, the conundrum that is Guantanamo was pointed up by today’s rejection in the Supreme Court of an appeal filed by two Uighur Muslims who have been in Guantanamo for roughly 4 years, as well as having been deemed “unthreatening” by a military tribunal almost a year ago. No threat, yet not to be released, because the detainees face possible torture or death if they are transferred back to Xinjiang province in China.
I guess they can work on their tans in the balmy Cuban sunshine while they languish. They can’t be allowed to enter the US, so it is said, because that would provide a disadvantageous precedent for other detainees’ lawyers to exploit. Conundrum indeed.
It just gets more intricate and convoluted with each passing day, the White House less and less able to manage the unplanned-for consequences of their decisions, the country less and less able to hold up its collective head with the confidence that it is on the right path.
Mohammed Jawad is still struggling to pick up the pieces of his lost childhood and teenage years after languishing for seven whole years in America
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There’s another reason 70-551 for keeping husbands off-stage: His scandals—particularly economic ones—will become hers. Whether it’s Geraldine Ferrarro 70-552 fighting off accusations that her husband had mob connections or Republican Jeanine Pirro having to distance herself from her spouse’s income-tax evasion, women can’t convincingly argue 70-553 that they have an independent financial life. “For women, their husband’s finances are assumed to be theirs,” Carroll says. “Any issues 70-554 about the finances of the husband, it becomes an issue for the wife. It doesn’t always happen 70-555 the other way.”
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