Tag Archives: Gitmo

Obama faces dwindling options in his effort to close Guantanamo Bay

Posted on January 29th, 2010

This story is a classic good news, bad news situation. The good news is that incompetent Presidents who make awful decisions can’t continue to govern against the wishes of the people indefinitely. The bad news is that incompetent Presidents continue to be incompetent and insist that we will try KSM in a civilian court…somewhere. They [...]

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White House may move terror trials

Posted on January 29th, 2010

Do you see the far reaching clout of a Solid Principles editorial? No sooner do I compose and post a blog article, then NY politicians are falling all over themselves to abandon the insane idea of blowing a billion bucks on Lower Manhattan’s equivalent of the Barnum & Bailey/Ringling Bros. Circus, A.K.A the Gitmo detainees’ [...]

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Terrorists Claim to Be Warriors: Why Can’t We Label Them Combatants?

Posted on January 27th, 2010

By: Jeff Beatty HUMAN EVENTS.COM President Obama was right in his recent acknowledgement that we are in a war, but he needs to say more and announce in his state of the Union Address that henceforth we will treat terrorists as enemy combatants. Here’s why. After the mishandling of the Christmas “underwear bomber” and the [...]

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Obfuscation after Obfuscation

Posted on January 26th, 2010

NATIONAL REVEIW ONLINE By: Bill Burck & Dana Perino The administration’s statement on Abdulmutallab’s interrogation hides more than it reveals. The Justice Department is in full damage-control mode to quell the growing furor about its decision to treat Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant with Miranda rights, a decision we now know was made [...]

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U.S. Suspends Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer to Yemen

Posted on January 5th, 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday suspended the transfer of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen as a result of the deteriorating security situation there. President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers not to send any more prisoners to Yemen as a result [...]

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Death of a Theory

Posted on January 5th, 2010

By:  Rich Lowry Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab couldn’t ignite the bomb in his underwear on Flight 253 on Christmas Day. All he managed to blow up was a worldview. His failed attempt put paid to the notion that terrorism is the byproduct of a few, specific U.S. policies and of our image abroad. This view [...]

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GOP Seizes on Security as Issue

Posted on January 2nd, 2010

By PETER WALLSTEN WASHINGTON — Political furor over the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 has thrust national security back to the center of American politics, with Republicans and the White House scrambling to blame each other for intelligence lapses and present themselves to voters as tougher on terrorism. Strategists in both parties believe that [...]

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Our 2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost–By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on January 1st, 2010

Although 2009 was a very good year for me and my family, it was a miserable year for many people I know and for many Americans I will never meet. So, while I have much to be grateful for, it saddens me to see how much the country has suffered this past year. But even [...]

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GOP leader wants Gitmo open

Posted on December 30th, 2009

Politico 44 By: Matt Negrin House Minority Leader John Boehner on Wednesday echoed a Republican chorus of criticism directed at the Obama administration’s response to the Christmas terror plot, saying Obama should not close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. “It’s time for the president to halt terrorist transfers to other countries, including Yemen, and to [...]

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Looking back on the president’s year of failure

Posted on December 28th, 2009

Either Craig and me and a good chunk of the conservative press think a lot alike, or we here at solid principles.com continue to perform “show prep” for other news organizations. Just last night we put up our new podcast “The Blunder Year” as we talked about Obama’s stunning lost opportunity to accomplish anything of [...]

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