[...] do with “supposed dangerousness”? A cavalier attitude in retrospect when you consider al-Shihri’s return to Yemen AQ leadership after being released in Saudi Arabia. And an even more absurd statement when you consider that, simultaneous with Obama’s EOs on [...]

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@Missy:

Free at last.

Free at last.

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My post is caught in the filter, P&T.

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Mike, Mata patiently steered us through this yesterday in the Obama’s Rash Decision thread.

There’s much more over there but these two excerpts from a WaPo article she used show that, no the judge doesn’t have to shut down just because Obama says so. The Admin told the “prosecutors” to “seek” the suspensions, the judge doesn’t have to agree to them:

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 20 — In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday ***to seek**** a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — a clear break with the approach of the outgoing Bush administration.

Such a request*** may not be automatically granted by military judges,*** and not all defense attorneys may agree to such a suspension. But the move is a first step toward closing a detention facility and system of military trials that became a worldwide symbol of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism and its unyielding attitude toward foreign and domestic critics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/20/AR2009012004743.html

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USMC: Someone correct me if I am wrong but it’s my guess that the judges trying these cases belong to the Executive branch under the Dept. of Defense and not the Judicial Branch. Therefore, Obie is their Commander in Chief as much as that pains me to type it.

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Unfortunately i think Mike is right. I left another post on this site. But in short the M/C told me that it would probably not go anywhere. But we are still fighting it!

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Well that blew my day to &*$#.

What trumps here Mike, the Constitution or the Presidency?

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@USMCdaughter1:

sadly it looks like the judge will be ordered to comply:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/29/military-judge-refuses-halt-trial-uss-cole-bombing-suspect/

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Gary, interesting word today:

MILITARY JUDGE REFUSES OBAMA REQUEST TO HALT TRIAL OF ALLEGED MASTERMIND OF USS COLE ATTACK

**Watch FOX News Channel or go to http://foxnews.com for more

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Larry: I personally confronted McCain over the issue of “torture.”

I don’t get your point. Are you suggesting we wouldn’t be complaining about this idiotic decision if McCain made it? I did that already.

Now go watch that video…

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