Yet another Jr.jr revelation for the naive
Obama Backs Bush Policy On Detainee Rights
President Barack Obama’s Justice Department sided with the former Bush administration on Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.
In a two-sentence court filing, department lawyers said the Obama administration agreed that detainees at Bagram Air Base cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention.
That’s the predictable part for those of us who actually paid attention to what was behind the slogans. More shocking is thir “shock”
The filing shocked human rights attorneys.
“The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we’d hoped,” said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Air Base. “We all expected better.”
Not all of us dear – you keep speaking for everyone!
After Mr. Obama took office, a federal judge in Washington gave the new administration a month to decide whether it wanted to stand by Bush’s legal argument. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd says the filing speaks for itself.
“They’ve now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law,” said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented several detainees. .
Now? What made you think he was different before? And what’s sadder still, you guys were slower than even New York Times at this…I suppose it’s time to wear this truth telling item that Obama campaign was selling
Update
Another Jr.jr, albeit on a sligtly different matter: secrecy
The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
Of course being AP, we are not being reminded of the hard drive wipe-out Rove ordered from Geek.com. we’re supposed to believe now it was an accident. And also, that all this covering for W has nothing to do with W helping his installation.
6 comments
February 21, 2009 at 7:50 am
Grail Guardian
You hit the raw nerve right on the head, Edge! Why do these freaking bozos keep pretending that they speak for all of us???? Millions of Americans (around 18) have been screaming at the top of our lungs about Obama’s lies and deceit and ill intent for over a year now. Just because your Kool Aid finally wore off, please don’t attach yourselves to those of us that never drank it in the first place.
I guess I should just be glad that they’re starting to see the light, but somehow they still manange to bring it with enough attitude to be truly offensive. The radical left has a long way to fall, but it’s starting already. Did you see this about HuffPo faking yet another story? This time they got caught red handed. Most powerful blog my ass!
http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/huffington-post-creates-fake-video-to-accuse-fox-news-of-racist-comments/
February 21, 2009 at 8:03 am
edgeoforever
Wow! Amazing story, Grail! I’ll use it to update my previous media story.
That someone fabricated it and that it caught fire like this is a testimony to the hysterical times we live in. And TPM is to be given as much credit – or more as HuffPo (they were TIME’s # 1 “best blog”)
February 21, 2009 at 12:22 pm
sister of ye
Didn’t these people pay attention to The One’s worship of Reagan? You remember Reagan – the guy who, when the Beirut Marine base bombing made him like a military fumbler, turned around and invaded the terribly menacing country of Grenada.
Human rights, small countries’ territorial integrity, hey, all expendable if they get in the way of Superman presidents’ agendas.
February 21, 2009 at 12:37 pm
leslie
It’s not so shocking. His wife developed a fiscal plan to ignore the health needs of the poorest among us in Chicago (see Doctors Slam U of C Hospital
An organization of emergency physicians is condemning policies at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
http://wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=32246
Now the “Constitutional Scholar” known as TehOne is denying legal options to those he can’t win votes from anyway.
February 21, 2009 at 4:11 pm
foxyladi14
i knew better..fraud
February 23, 2009 at 11:29 am
rangoon78
My Fair Leader?
Interesting tidbit I found while reading an article about one of our torture victims:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A depressing saga of secrets, lies and medieval horrors – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Commentators – The Independent
“The US and UK pay others to do what Saddam used to do to his adversaries in custody. This facility is procured by, and makes perfect sense to, those who believe the end justifies anything. Just this week President Obama met Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the Canadian opposition who wrote The Lesser Evil, a book which defended torture when used to protect the interests of the US.”
–Looks like this Ignatieff may be Canada’s Obama:
His supporters — and they are committed enough to make him frontrunner — portray Ignatieff, 59, as a 21st-century Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Thus, it was perfect that the man credited with a lead role in wooing him home from Harvard University was Ian Davey, son of Keith, the storied Liberal “Rainmaker.” It’s already legend how, in late summer 2004, a select group of Liberals, Davey among them, gathered in a North Toronto home where they agreed Ignatieff, internationally acclaimed author, broadcaster, pundit, should be the next party leader.
Later that year, Davey led an advance party to Cambridge, Mass., where Ignatieff was director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard. Their conversation sparked a chain of events that included Ignatieff’s keynote address to a Liberal policy convention in March 2005 and an exclusive dinner that June at Yorkville’s Il Posto, where the big dog, Senator David Smith, Canada’s most powerful Liberal, looked him over. He liked what he saw; it was mutual, and Smith would become co-chair of Ignatieff’s leadership bid, with Davey as manager.
Ignatieff had it all: a record as a Trudeau Liberal in the ’60s, dark good looks and an appealing mien of barely suppressed energy within his tall, lanky frame. He even had an agent, the canny Michael Levine, to arrange rare public appearances and create a buzz.
The myth grows. “It was Keith, an old friend of mine, who said, `He’d make a great prime minister,’” says Levine of Ignatieff’s delivery of the Keith Davey lecture in 1998. “It’s not that he didn’t have that ambition,” says political economist Stephen Clarkson. “He told people 15 years ago that he thought about coming back to become prime minister.”
“To some extent, all political leaders are inventions, creations of their handlers,” York University political economist James Laxer wrote recently on his blog. “The Ignatieff case has taken this to the point of absurdity. One almost expects a George Bernard Shaw to conjure up a professor Higgins who can transform the fussy academic into a man of the people, in a reverse Pygmalion.”
TheStar.com | Canada | Unravelling Ignatieff