Obama Planning US Trials for Gitmo Detainees

Barack Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a plan to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.

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November 10, 2008 at 1:58 pm - AP
Dateline: Washington DC
SuperSarge229   November 10th, 2008 - 1:47 pm

Stupid from day one.
What a freaking bunch of losers we’ve become in the name of “Change”.

“For the first time in my adult life, I’m ashamed of my country.”

We won't miss you.   November 10th, 2008 - 1:57 pm

SuperSarge,
Then leave, already. Remember the love it or leave it part? There must be a racist nation that will want you. Or is there one?

Sean R.   November 10th, 2008 - 1:58 pm

We Won’t miss you, I’m not going to leave this country, and speaking of which, wasn’t you liberals who back in 2000 and 2004 said that you were going to leave America? It turns out that you liberals were nothing but a bunch of hypocrtites and phoneys, because just about all of you leftist stayed here during that time.

And just because we voted against Obama DOES NOT mean that were racist, we voted against him because of his marxist viewpoints, etc. You liberals are only seeing this through skin color only, and you libs are the real racist here!

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!!!

We won't miss you, either.   November 10th, 2008 - 2:02 pm

Sean,
It must suck to be you. Get used to it. Obama and the Dems are in and you and your kind are out.

God bless America!

Neal E   November 10th, 2008 - 2:09 pm

We won’t miss you, either. November 10th, 2008 – 2:02 pm

“Sean,
It must suck to be you. Get used to it. Obama and the Dems are in and you and your kind are out.

God bless America!”

I believe the quote from your guy’s preacher is “God Damn America!”

Get your quotes straight.

el taco   November 10th, 2008 - 2:11 pm

Maybe government paid lawyers like the ones that got Bill Ayers off can do the same for terrorists!

Hear ‘The Bill Ayers Shuffle’ @www.conservativemusiconline.com

Other   November 10th, 2008 - 2:16 pm

1) There are other military prisons.

2) There is a problem with the Supreme Court on this.

Its just showboating.

Note* his website has taken down his agenda. Reality is setting in.

Kenny C   November 10th, 2008 - 2:23 pm

They don’t give a hoot about the prisoners, it’s just another sham to line the pockets of those ambulance chasers. And we the tax payers will foot the bill.
Why not just put them back on the battle field, and be done with it.

Other   November 10th, 2008 - 2:29 pm

“Kenny C November 10th, 2008 – 2:23 pm

They don’t give a hoot about the prisoners, it’s just another sham to line the pockets of those ambulance chasers. And we the tax payers will foot the bill.
Why not just put them back on the battle field, and be done with it.”

Some of them have been found innocent and released before. Mayhap we learned our lesson.

Bobc   November 10th, 2008 - 2:32 pm

No doubt there will be far left judges, that will release them on our streets…..not only pay their legal expenses, but we will be made to fork over welfare and food stamps to them!

Drop them off on a desolate island if you want to shut down gitmo!

We won't miss you, either.   November 10th, 2008 - 2:39 pm

Bob,
You will be happy to know that they have just discovered blue prints for Auschwitz. Now you, Sarge, and Sean don’t have to plan one of these places, it’s already done for you! Where should we set it up? Gitmo is done!

Vette66   November 10th, 2008 - 2:47 pm

Hold a trial for the detainees or the ones doing the detaining?

OK libs I’m ready for your smart mouth answers.

Granted BO is the POTUS elect but I don’t have to like him any more than you like GW. I’ll just put up with him like I did Carter. BO will be gone in 4 years unless hs declares himself POTUS for life like his bud Chavez and Castro.

Erik   November 10th, 2008 - 2:51 pm

First of all, he can’t do anything himself. The current procedure is prescribed by the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Any potential changes will have to make it through Congress first, just like they did under Bush.

Second of all, I doubt he is interested in making any actual substantive changes in this area. Maybe, for PR effect, he’ll transfer them from Guantanamo to another military base.

Informer   November 10th, 2008 - 3:08 pm

I wonder how many relatives Obama will find when the Gitmo crowd gets here.

Sigmond   November 10th, 2008 - 3:10 pm

Be careful what you say about Obama, and do not dare to disagree with his policies or you will be called racist.

Liberalism is a mental disorder   November 10th, 2008 - 3:15 pm

@ “We won’t miss you” — So, you’re saying, a President is to be elected BECAUSE he’s Black? He or she is to be President ONLY based upon race?

That’s the only basis upon which opposing someone for the Presidency, then, that’d be logical, if YOUR “logic” there was to be taken seriously.

Opposing a Marxist for rejectable politics and an individual for erratic, dubious personality problems (Obama, in this case) is hardly “racist.” It’s common sense and it’s also the exercise of a responsible citizen at the voting booth.

But you actual racists enjoy your brief minutes of fame about your racist candidate. The rest of us are busy working to save this nation from you.

m-antony   November 10th, 2008 - 3:16 pm

He must free his muslim brothers. As he feels the winds have shifted. So, he releases them only to let them bomb again in the name of his religion. Sweet, what is not to like about Brozo the clown?

Liberalism is a mental disorder   November 10th, 2008 - 3:20 pm

Sigmond, “racist” is the new “gay.”

I think “we won’t miss you” is busy working up some “camp plans” for those rascally racists he sees, well, everywhere. If they’re “gay,” though, that means he takes them home for disco.

Larse   November 10th, 2008 - 3:22 pm

It will be nice to have the words “liberty and justice for all” actually mean something in the United States again! :)

America the Beautiful   November 10th, 2008 - 3:25 pm

The sickening far right wing of America has no business being in power in the new century. Reading these bigotted comments makes me very sad for these low-information Americans.

Our educational system obviously failed them…. or they are just racist. YUP – all the muslim comments are based on race (not just his skin color) but his Arab ancestry.

The man is a Christian.
Much more of a Christian defame another man who has found and loves Christ.

Shameful — but to be expected from the low end far right. Same folks that would have supported segregation and keeping jews out of country clubs and VFW’s.

carl   November 10th, 2008 - 3:26 pm

Both Obama and McCain pledged to close Gitmo.

But neither proposed exactly what to do with the worst of the worst terrorists captured on the field of battle.

If the Supreme Court TWICE rejected military tribunal systems approved by the Congress and the White House–then they’ll reject anything short of al-Qaeda bombers on Court TV with full discloser of classified intelligence.

The cases will drag on for years, give up classified intelligence and methods, and end up freeing the bastards on technicalities. They’ll turn around and attack targets in the U.S.

Thank you, Justice Kennedy!

m-antony   November 10th, 2008 - 3:47 pm

America the Beautiful,

You call Black Liberation Theology , Christianity ? You are shameful if you are that ignorant.

Other   November 10th, 2008 - 3:49 pm

“Our educational system obviously failed them…. or they are just racist. YUP – all the muslim comments are based on race (not just his skin color) but his Arab ancestr”

Muslim is not a race; and its still undecided wether Arab is a race too. What educational system are you referring to?

Other   November 10th, 2008 - 3:49 pm

“Shameful — but to be expected from the low end far right. Same folks that would have supported segregation”

Wow! You really are ignorant aren’t you? Read a history book.

Maximus   November 10th, 2008 - 3:54 pm

Aint this nice… Homie is going to set his muslims brothers free.. free, free at last…
what a bunch of stupid americans….

Bubbala   November 10th, 2008 - 4:00 pm

Obama isn’t a Christian. Even trying to put that round peg into a four-square hole is the act and perspective of someone who does not know Christ.

It’s tedious to continue to read criticism from people who aren’t Christian, reprimanding others on what they presume to conclude Christians are to be.

Black Liberation Theology is not Christianity.

Maximus   November 10th, 2008 - 4:03 pm

“other” you need to look up American History. It seems your liberal teacvhers have taught you that republicans/conservatives wanted to stop segregation and the civil liberties, but it is just the opposite. The idiots and morons have fell for the liber/democrats lies and now live in poverty. They live in a cycle of dependancy from the master aka government. Stupid americans.

revhatchell   November 10th, 2008 - 4:33 pm

due process? in america?

what is this country coming to???

what the hell is next? habeus corpus?

the bill of rights is a commie trick it tells ya!

Enzo   November 10th, 2008 - 5:50 pm

Barrack Hussein Obama will set his people free… then I will want to go to prison…where it will be safer.

That guy is going to hurt America, and I hope his supporters pay the most for their voting misfeasance.

fande3rls   November 10th, 2008 - 6:18 pm

revhatchell :
these terrorist are not United States citizens .there for they have no right to our court system nor do they have rights under the geniva convention they had no uniform nor were they fight for a country.

grik   November 10th, 2008 - 6:32 pm

They may not have any right to a trial but just because they are suspected does not make them defacto terrorists. It is beyond the pale to lock someone up without trial for years upon years just because they are suspects.

That is just plain wrong.

fande3rls   November 10th, 2008 - 6:39 pm

Grik I DON”T CARE THEY WERE KILLING US. I WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM NO QUARTER . THEY GAVE UP THEIR HUMANITY YEARS AGO

fande3rls   November 10th, 2008 - 6:44 pm

we treated them better than they deserve.

Maximus   November 10th, 2008 - 6:59 pm

We should have taken no prisoners…then the liberals would have boo hooed about that also. What a bunch of bleeding heart liberal pigs. I hope that all those stupid americans that voted for hussien obama get every ounce of taxation that they deserve. You liberals bettewr start reading the koran because you will be asked if your a athesist, christian or mooslim by the gestapo your presidente` has establihed aka brothers from the hood….Stupid americans walking off to the slaughter houses….

grik   November 10th, 2008 - 7:12 pm

Well, to show you how much I think they’ve been maligned, I’d actually invite them to live in my neighborhood. They’re harmless.

grik   November 10th, 2008 - 7:24 pm

Evil grik November 10th, 2008 – 7:12 pm

Actually if they are are tried and freed. I welcome them to Minnesota. Why shouldnt they come here if they are not guilty. Some of them were children.

grik   November 10th, 2008 - 7:25 pm

Besides, President Obama will not be closing Guantanamo because he will need someplace to put his political enemies.

Lafn Bacstage   November 10th, 2008 - 7:33 pm

To all Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives and True Americans:

This website continues to host the bigoted hateful rantings of the mental minority. There is little of value found here. Quit it and find other places to get your news.

I quit this site for two weeks because I tired of the thick goo of hatred flowing from the posters.
Now that the election is over, I see nothing but the same old sh*t. I see no reason to return.

Most of the opinions stated here are those expressed from the limited vengeful mind. Let them wallow in their own ignorance.

Quit Breitbart. Go elsewhere. Join me in turning away from the contemptuous bile expressed in this site. There is HOPE in America again. We now have a president elect who can speak in complete sentences, who is a scholar and who can invoke the greatness of America. Turn towards the light and away from the darkness.

Listen not to the purveyors of fear. Press delete. Move On, seek American renewal not frustration and destruction.

Pray for Obama.
Pray for America.

grik   November 10th, 2008 - 7:39 pm

Evil grik November 10th, 2008 – 7:25 pm

It is the GOP who torture and imprison without trial. Barak Obama does not believe in that. His party does not believe in that. I don’t believe in that.

We still hold American values dear.

Certainly   November 10th, 2008 - 7:49 pm

To grik – “I welcome them to Minnesota. Why shouldnt they come here if they are not guilty.”

Primarily, because there aren’t enough innocent civilians clustered close enough together. It’s difficult to take out large quantities of people with a car bomb if they live 10 miles apart.

Of course, beware turbin wearing ice fishermen in your little wintertime ice fishing shanty communities.

BARACK OBAMA   November 10th, 2008 - 7:52 pm

All these terrorists need is a hug.

Certainly   November 10th, 2008 - 8:32 pm

To grik – “We still hold American values dear.”

Like killing babies, a guy marrying a guy (or girl marrying a girl), forced labor under the new Obama plan for student’s community service, stealing money from a hardworking individual and giving it to people that don’t work. Values like those? You can keep ‘em.

grik   November 10th, 2008 - 8:40 pm

First of all nobody in this country is for killing babies.

Second of all people should be able to marry whomever they want.

Third nobody (student or not) was ever the worse for a little hard work.

And fact is sometimes we do need to pay for people that are unable to take care of themselves. So don’t be so stingy. There is nothing wrong with helping out others.

Mac-101   November 10th, 2008 - 9:24 pm

Right, no one is for killing babies. You just kill full term fetus’in the womb. If their born, you don’t kill them, just set them in a Linnen closet to DIE.

Wait for Gov health care. Grandpa needing that quadruple bypass will be put on the LIST to DIE, premos requireing life support are DEAD! Just look at Europe and Canada! They’re so progressive.

Certainly   November 10th, 2008 - 9:26 pm

First of all, BO is for killing babies, as is anyone that believe in abortion.

Second of all, most people in this country DO NOT believe that people should be able to marry whomever they want (note California and Prop 8).

Third, the students I know DO work hard through church campaigns and other voluntary organizations.

I am not stingy and I am not opposed to helping others. I contributed a significantly higher percentage of my income, through my church, than either your god Obama, and ESPECIALLY his really stingy sidekick Biden. I have no problems with contributing, but I want to decide to whom I contribute…not have my money stolen by the government and then redistributed by them.

N O Waff   November 10th, 2008 - 11:00 pm

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= OBAMA WANTS TO GIVE TERRORISTS THE
= SAME RIGHTS AS U.S. CITIZENS INSTEAD OF
= THE ENEMY COMBATANT STATUS THEY DESERVE
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A travesty of justice. The ACLU will make millions in defending terrorists.

This is the “change” with the coming ObamaNation – more rights to terrorists.

Matt Sanchez   November 11th, 2008 - 4:57 am

This is a very risky and tricky prospect.

He’ll practically have to create law to define their status. Enemy combatant, soldiers, civilians?

What if they’re found not guilty? Who will take them?

I wrote a column on this.

http://www.matt-sanchez.com/2008/08/the-little-pris.html

SuperSarge229   November 11th, 2008 - 5:15 pm

We won’t miss you,
Has nothing to do with racism, you one issue dork!
It has everything to do with that Marxist do nothing destroying what we have protected for over 200 years. In 1979 I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic and if it comes down to it, I’ll live up to that oath! Leave the country? Screw you, I’ve fought for this country! What the heck have you ever done for it, except maybe snivel and moan!

SuperSarge229   November 11th, 2008 - 5:17 pm

Pull off your head and siht down your neck! Candyarse buncha wannabes!

SuperSarge229   November 11th, 2008 - 5:18 pm

Fcuking Pisansts!!

RS   November 12th, 2008 - 1:52 am

while we’re at it… Also hold a trial for Obama and ACORN. They caused the our current economic situation As ACORN forced banks to loan money to people/illegals. Oh also… the wire-fraud/bank-fraud/credit card fraud for the Obama campaign. which was very ‘intentional’ and not ‘accidental’. one finds it hard… to stumble into the security protocols (which requires a password) and then accidentally switch off the security features. Obama did such purposely – and illegally.

Alex   November 12th, 2008 - 2:50 am

As a conservative, who didn’t vote for Senator Obnama. I am proud that he has decided that the detainees will be tried in American courts. It’s about time.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like these characters at Gitmo. However, I believe that we, as the good guys, must always play by the rules. For without rules, we are no better than they are!

They are entited to constitutional protections and protection under the Geneva Conventions. Our military men understand the importance of upholding these vital laws for combatants.

I hope the President-Elect will renounce torture and mistreatment of prisoners at the very least.

After all, we’re supposed to be the good guys!

TheSeeds   November 13th, 2008 - 11:26 am

Lets send them all to grik’s house. He would love to take care of Obama’s cousins. Spread the love.

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