Darth Omar
Russian asset
Probably because the evidence was shaky and the report could be used for political or propaganda purposes.
Sounds like they voted well lol.
Loretta Lynch Confirms: It Is Illegal to Transfer GITMO Detainees to the US
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Probably because the evidence was shaky and the report could be used for political or propaganda purposes.
Sounds like they voted well lol.
christiefan915
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Now why would the CIA destroy all those video recordings if everything that happened was hunky-dory?
California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that the report was conducted after CIA Director of the National Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, was found to have destroyed almost 100 video recordings of interrogations in 2005. The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) believed that he was covering up illegal activities by the CIA, although the committee had initially been told by CIA officials that Rodriguez was not engaging in "destruction of evidence."
California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that the report was conducted after CIA Director of the National Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, was found to have destroyed almost 100 video recordings of interrogations in 2005. The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) believed that he was covering up illegal activities by the CIA, although the committee had initially been told by CIA officials that Rodriguez was not engaging in "destruction of evidence."
christiefan915
Catalyst
They didn't deny torture happened.
Really ?.....what is inhuman is to burn captives alive in cages and cutting the heads off of innocents.....
christiefan915
Catalyst
Of course that's inhumane and those people should be captured and tried also. I never disputed that.
cancel2 2022
Canceled
I bet you didn't know that the song Guantanamera is about a girl from Guantanamo!
Darth Omar
Russian asset
I'm not interested in capturing and trying Islamists who behead people or kill kids in front of their parents, as long as there's good video evidence.
christiefan915
Catalyst
christiefan915
Catalyst
It's not for us to try anyway, we have no jurisdiction.
Wrong according to whom, YOU? You don't get to decide for me.
Detainee claims? Who, beside people like you, give a shit what they say?
I'll tell you they don't. You don't have to like it because that isn't a requirement.
For the same reasons Obama chooses not to show his college records.
christiefan915
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christiefan915
Catalyst
And yet Obama has had no problem with that stain these 8 long years- and YOU have not held him accountable. His ONLY concern is his desire for a legacy. He obviously has no concern about safety for Americans.
christiefan915
Catalyst
Scalia dissented, why am I not surprised.
Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008) was a writ of habeas corpus submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.
On June 12, 2008, Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion for the 5–4 majority, holding that the prisoners had a right to the habeas corpus under the United States Constitution and that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was an unconstitutional suspension of that right. The Court applied the Insular Cases, by the fact that the United States, by virtue of its complete jurisdiction and control, maintains "de facto" sovereignty over this territory, while Cuba retained ultimate sovereignty over the territory, to hold that the aliens detained as enemy combatants on that territory were entitled to the writ of habeas corpus protected in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution.
Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008) was a writ of habeas corpus submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.
On June 12, 2008, Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion for the 5–4 majority, holding that the prisoners had a right to the habeas corpus under the United States Constitution and that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was an unconstitutional suspension of that right. The Court applied the Insular Cases, by the fact that the United States, by virtue of its complete jurisdiction and control, maintains "de facto" sovereignty over this territory, while Cuba retained ultimate sovereignty over the territory, to hold that the aliens detained as enemy combatants on that territory were entitled to the writ of habeas corpus protected in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution.
christiefan915
Catalyst
Really? Seems to me it's the GOP who had problems with that stain for seven long years.
"A final plan by Barack Obama to fulfill his pledge to close Guantánamo Bay – functionally identical to what he has already proposed – has already run into heavy political opposition, underscoring the likelihood Guantánamo will remain a detention facility after Obama leaves office.
The plan, released on Tuesday in accordance with a congressional request, reiterates previous administration insistences on closing Guantánamo rather than proposing a long-elusive new option with the chance of breaking through more than seven years of GOP refusal on Capitol Hill.
Obama, expressing frustration at what has been for seven years a futile battle, again implored Congress to “go ahead and close this chapter”, portraying Guantánamo as “counterproductive to our fight against terrorists”.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/23/obama-guantanamo-bay-closure-plan-congress
We aren't barbaric because we follow the our laws, it is what makes us different from them.