Discussion for article #224490
Okay, first? We’ve got a nearly-empty max-security prison in Colorado tailor-made for this piece of detritus, or any other terrorist we can grab and prosecute. And as to the “sheer expense, the manpower, the planning” of preparing the case, how much manpower and expense does it take to keep them at Gitmo without a trial? I know it obviates the need for any “planning” (or any kind of legal process), but still…
PS I have to say that when I saw the headline, I thought the article was going to be about Trey Gowdy finally getting off his ass and explaining just what his traveling circus was going to try and accomplish.
Man, its too damn early to drink cuz you said Benghazzii! DIube urbsd fuis
®s are acting like the car-chasing-dog-- that caught the car.
Got no idea WTF to do now.
We’re graced with Rep. Mike Rogers, R-MI-- who steps up first to relate his cluelessness in pronouncing we’ll need to build ‘dozens of prisons’ to house terrorists.
We got plenty already Mike. Thanks to pantswetters like you.
jw1
This is just a distraction from the World Cup. Nice try, Obama!!!1!
Shorter GOP rant: “Pay no attention to the fact that we caught the mastermind of the Benghazi killings.”
No World Cup player could pull off THAT BIG of a flop lol.
“If we’re doing to do this for everybody engaged in terrorism around the world, we’d better start building prisons by the dozens,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday
We need those jail cells for potheads, not real criminals
And the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan HAVEN’T been expensive?
And if you, Mike Rogers, and the other Republiscum sociopaths were thinking that it would just be a lot more expedient to kill people on the off-chance that they might be, or might know of, terrorists, then why are you guys complaining about Obama’s relatively few executive orders?
The Foxsquats are waiting anxiously for Alex Jones to fill them in on all the conspiracies they need to look at this through their HATE FILTER.
“What’s going to matter to the public more than anything else is the result, and I think it’s going to only diffuse some of the ongoing Benghazi conspiracy theories if the Obama administration is going to be able to successfully obtain a conviction in this case,” said American University law professor Stephen Vladeck, a national security law expert.
I think you mean “defuse”, unless he’s saying a conviction would cause the conspiracy theories to spread even more. Which, given the GOP’s method of thinking, may be precisely what Dr. Vladeck meant.
Oh, for the innocent days of the mid-'90s, when we could catch the guys who bombed the World Trade Center, convict them, and throw their asses in jail forever, and everyone agreed that was a sensible way to handle it.
“The capture, a significant breakthrough in the investigation, immediately revived a debate on how to treat suspected terrorists from foreign countries: as criminal defendants with the protections of the U.S. legal system or as enemy combatants who should be interrogated for intelligence purposes and put through the military tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
The answer to that one is simple. These people are not combatants; they are criminals. They should be treated as criminals, not glorified as combatants.
Exactly! We don’t grant murderers special status because they claim (whether truthfully or not) some political or religious motivation for their crimes. Imagine if after 9/11, instead of invading Afghanistan and Iraq in some foolhardy attempt to turn the Middle East into Scandinavia, Bush had simply sent Special Forces in to grab OBL, al Zwahiri and any other Al Qaeda leaders they could get their hands on, leaving the people there to sort out their own affairs. Those countries would be in no worse of a mess than they are today and the US would be a whole lot better off.
Yes, it was a kinder, gentler America when truth and justice were the American way instead of “bomb, bomb, bomb, …”
O/T, but I see that they think they’ve found your avatar’s tomb, in Naples of all places (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/draculas-tomb-discovered-in-italy).
And then Rogers blustered, “Isn’t it cheaper to just rendition them to several black sites around the world, drug and torture them and then seal them away at Guantanamo in perpetuity? I thought that was the American way!”
The TeaTards will squawk no matter what the administration does. If we sent Khattala to Gitmo and waterboarded him daily, they’d criticize Obama for “breaking his promise” to close it.
Correct!
But the portfolios of MIC investors would have suffered profusely.
jw1
And Halliburton would be about $40 billion poorer.
Actually, I think even Halliburton has said that they would have been better off putting their efforts into oil and gas drilling, which has been much more lucrative the last decade than government contracts.