I was under the impression that this was unconstitutional...
WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.
The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny national security matters, including his promise to close the detention center at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Human rights advocates are growing deeply uneasy with Mr. Obama’s stance on these issues, especially his recent move to block the release of photographs showing abuse of detainees, and his announcement that he is willing to try terrorism suspects in military commissions — a concept he criticized bitterly as a presidential candidate.
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Yeah I'm not surprised that Obama is moving this way. I don't think this is going to work, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
It seems that very few politicians know or care about the constitution any more Walker.
America= rule of law, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Once they get away with it using foreigners to test the program they will start on Americans like if you disagree with the president you are locked up.
Guilty until proven innocent, pretty soon we will be on the buyout system like Mexico.
I heard about this on the news.
read it on the news today at the Y
Things all change once they get in office....
can you say flip flop
i heart obama
WTF? <b>incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried</b>
Why can't they be tried? Lack of substantial evidence? ;o)
So WTF? You can't use HTML in frigging comments anymore?
Looks like <b> ANOTHER </b> wonderful UPGRADE!
You need to add it directly in HTML (lower right-hand corner of the box).
I finally discovered this, shortly AFTER I made this comment.
Does this mean that we can now embed videos into a comment thread?
Yes. If you can do it with plain vanilla HTML (no XML or Java), you can now do it in a comment.
I guess that rules out copying embed codes from You Tube, eh?
Do you ever wonder if Obama had been informed and honest about the issues, if he would have gotten elected? His "promises" were unfounded in reality. Now he's doing the exact same things Bush did and McCain said he would have done. Hmmmm.....
I have a feeling that he was completely isolated and kept in the dark for a purpose. Once in the office, it became a matter of "oh, by the way..."
Are you suggesting a conspiracy theory?
It's not conspiracy. It's a documented fact that has been stated by most of the major news services other than FOX.
BWAAAA! You call Faux a "major news service".
Maybe reality hit and he found out being in charge is very different from campaigning.