Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:14:55 PM
Redefining a movement: “Liberalism” is now whatever Obama says it is
The new president has ordered that his predecessor's rendition policies
remain largely intact, even to the point of using the "state secrets"
privilege to block a rendition lawsuit. Obama may have stated
categorically that America "will not torture," but outsourcing it is
still OK.
The White House also defends the Bush policy of imprisoning, without
trial, enemy combatants captured abroad. Obama's lawyers argued in a
court case brought by Afghan prisoners at the U.S. Air Force base at
Bagram, Afghanistan, that the "government adheres to its previously
articulated position" -- the one articulated by those evil Bush
lawyers.
Meanwhile, a new Pentagon study commissioned by Obama
has found that the prison at Guantanamo Bay meets the standards of the
Geneva Convention. One can only guess how the White House will make use
of that finding. At the least, it should provide cover while the
administration looks for alternatives to Gitmo that might not be all
that alternative.