Category: Gitmo
"THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained a copy of the report, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder’s transmittal memorandum. As explained below, the Task Force concluded that 95 percent of the detainees held at Gitmo, as of January 2009, had at least some noteworthy connection to the terrorist network."
"It is shocking and true: A federal judge has ordered the release of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, one of the top recruiters for the 9/11 attacks - a man once deemed the highest-value detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
"With but a two-sentence ruling, Washington Federal Judge James Robertson has taken the dangerous folly of granting enemy combatants entree into civilian courts to its outrageous, indecent limit. Who's next, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?"
"The Obama administration is looking into detaining international terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan . . . . Holding suspects captured outside Afghanistan at Bagram Air Base would create another prison serving the same purpose as the one President Obama has pledged to close in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
Victor Davis Hanson opines: "Every self-destructive moralist, as tragedy teaches us, is obsessed with the self. In our own age, recall Woodrow Wilson’s shrill furor at lesser mortals who were suspicious of his exalted League of Nations, remember FDR’s court-packing anger at the less than sympathetic Supreme Court, or remember Jimmy Carter’s 'crisis of confidence' whine in summer 1979. Read more »
