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Daily Events...
Wednesdays
with Emily Miller - Guantanamo
By Emily Miller
President Obama has spent the past two years trying to bring murderous
terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to the United States, failing only
because of Congress blocking his every move.
In January 2009, Obama put out an Executive Order that he would close
Gitmo within one year. The American people and their representatives in
Congress refused to allow him to give terrorists civilian trials or be
jailed in prisons on U.S. soil.
In response to the two-year stalemate, Obama dictated a new Executive
Order on Monday to restart military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.
However, he also gave the terrorists a multitude of new legal rights
that will drag out their trials and possibly allow their release.
Obama’s policy for Guantanamo Bay has been overly simplistic: Close the
military jail. If he had any foreign policy or national security
knowledge, he would have instituted a broad national policy for
handling prisoners from the War on Terror and protecting Americans from
terrorists.
Immediately after Obama issued his latest dictate, House Republicans
sped up the release of legislation that redresses the mistakes made in
the administration’s policy. The Armed Services Committee yesterday
introduced the Detainee Security Act of 2011 to counter the White House
order and put into law policies for handling the detainees and
protecting the U.S. from terrorists. The Senate is working on similar
legislation, and a vote on the new policies will happen in the spring.
The legislation announced will keep Guantanamo Bay open; ban the
alleged terrorists from coming to U.S. soil; block funding for any
facility in the U.S. for the detainees, affirm that military law is in
effect for al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and terrorist networks; control the
release of detainees to other countries so that they cannot return to
the battlefield; and directly oppose the new legal rights bestowed on
the detainees by Obama.
This President does not have the national security experience or
knowledge to fulfill the basic role of government: protecting and
defending the people. The arrogant Obama also refused to consult with
Congress or the American people on how to handle the detainees at
Gitmo. As a result, Obama has demonstrated that his administration is
incapable of establishing broad policies to ensure that prisoners of
the War on Terror are not returned to the battlefield.
Congress had to intervene to protect America from the failures of the
President to defend us against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other Muslim
extremist groups who are trying to kill Americans.
My story today has more details on the specific national security
provisions to keep Americans safe: Congressional GOP Push Back Against
Obama’s New Gitmo Policy.
Read it with links at Daily Events
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