First, here’s some news on how president Obama’s administration may be stonewalling Congress by refusing to cooperate in a probe to find out how the army could be so negligent in dealing with Malik Nidal Hasan (via Hot Air)….

The Geneva Convention does NOT protect enemy combatants any more than the US Constitutional Rights apply to non-US-citizens.

maverick muse on November 18, 2009 at 8:56 AM

I think you mean the Geneva Convention does NOT project illegal combatants.

It doesn’t and the fact that we are extending the protections to the illegal combatants / detainees while at the same time refusing to hold others accountable for their violations of the GC makes a mockery of the GC and what it was trying to establish – protections of the civilian populations.
What incentives does any future enemy have to follow the GC with our soldiers? None. Thus we get desecrated bodies of POWs who were executed without trial.
I think we should enforce the Geneva Convention – including the summary execution of illegal combatants in the field. And make it perfectly clear to everyone what we are doing, why, and the fact that such measures are practically demanded of the GC.

I remember well the progressives liberally arguing the falsehood that the justices decided to choose as their basis to vault themselves above their given station in our Constitutional Republic.

The Geneva Convention does NOT protect enemy combatants any more than the US Constitutional Rights apply to non-US-citizens.

Revisionism, a house built upon sand.

An unusual aspect of the case was an amicus brief filed by Senators Jon Kyl and Lindsey Graham, which presented an “extensive colloquy” added to the Congressional record as evidence that “Congress was aware” that the [McCain] Detainee Treatment Act would strip the Supreme Court of jurisdiction to hear cases brought by the Guantanamo detainees. Because these statements were not actually included in the December 21 debate, Emily Bazelon of Slate magazine has argued this was an attempt to mislead the court.–Wiki, Hamden v. Rumsfeld

It would appear that the Supreme Court presumes self-vested authority in military tribunals of non-US-citizen enemy combatants that are not Constitutionally granted.

/Living, breathing Court.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder expressed confidence that the cases were strong

All the worse, to squander strong cases against the 9/11 terrorists in the wrong venue, refusing the nation prosecution of the terrorists in the traditional Constitutionally designed military tribunal vs. civil courts for enemy combatants of war–specifically wrong to demand the place be the civil courts in “biased” NY where the terrorism occurred.

Obama’s mistakes are intentional, “PREJUDGED” for greatest destructive impact. Destabilize the USA–change Obama believes in.

Understood. All the more reason to refrain from binding the military with PC protocol, the icing on the obtuse cake.

Not prosecuting, i.e. keeping these terrorists in indefinite detention at Gitmo, just may have been the only safe policy.

Nichevo on November 18, 2009 at 4:35 AM

“the only safe policy”

SAFE so long as nothing CHANGED, no change of the guard, no change of venue, no change in leadership or authority.

But change was in the works during Bush’s administration as his growing turncoat Congressional opposition made clear. Closing Gitmo was in the works against Bush’s administration, as was the redefinition/revision of the definition of “torture”.

AS IF from the Oval Office the Bush Administration had no idea who Obama was.

Bush passed the buck, handing it to Obama, knowing full well the travesty to come under Obama’s watch.

Mukasey is making it clear that Obama is handling the prosecution of terrorists without Constitutional regard. Evidently he was prevented by the President from facilitating the substantiation to make the military tribunals of the 9/11 terrorists occur under Bush’s watch.

/Excuse my response prior to my taking advantage of your link where I’m going now.

One intrinsic handicap that progressives suffer is the constant need to revise records and fabricate whole cloth for the mode of the day.

Obama will not “prejudge” until his cover-up case is complete. No one asked Obama to prejudge. So for Obama to persistently reiterate that word “prejudge” which he introduced for the media is his current mode of DISTRACTION. Obama is accusing everyone of being prejudiced as if his projection of evil upon justice makes justice evil. The only insistence to “prejudge” comes from Obama’s administration/media that insists Hasan is NOT a terrorist because there’s no such thing as the urban myth “terrorist”.

“Far Left lawyers” have no standing within the Military to prevent or postpone the processing of a full fledged tribunal.

The Commander in Chief had the power and authority to have the captured terrorists processed through a military tribunal.

Bush blinked, waiting to exhale as it were. The buck stops in the Oval Office where it waited “indefinitely” for Bush’s administration to expire.

By failing to prosecute theh 9/11 terrorists, Bush also failed to set precedent for subsequent presidents to follow.

maverick muse on November 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM

The Supreme Court may think otherwise. Read this.

Not prosecuting, i.e. keeping these terrorists in indefinite detention at Gitmo, just may have been the only safe policy.

Please someone enlighten me as to how we can go over his head.Will Congress have to take a stand on this?

Congress will take no stand of any kind against President Obama. Both the Legislative and the Executive branches of the United States government are currently being run by, and exclusively in the interests of, Democrats. If you expect to have any standing with these bodies as a mere Citizen, or any expectation that one Democrat will stand against another Democrat on behalf or mere Citizens, you are sadly mistaken.

However, this malicious cabal will be terminated, beginning next year. Democrats apparently have short memories, but we Citizens will deliver a sharp reminder, even though most Democrats will not require it again, in their new entry-level jobs in the private sector.

Go Sarah. Go kick serious ass. For the rest of us.

All I want is an investigation —not stonewalling by this administration. If this is “all lies” then let’s hear what the administration has to say about this. Why are they afraid to address the issues?

ILUVTX on November 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM

Let me apologize for my choice of language. I agree with you that there are investigations that need to happen and relationships that need to be scrutinized. Just having a bad day…

ILUVTX on November 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM

Please. Get a grip. Have you done any research on this at all? This is why so much of the REAL criticisms can’t get through to the populace….because mouth-breathers like you fill the channel with obviously and easily refuted lies.

Even Jerome Corsi had the following to say:

“Hasan is being reported as a participant in the GWU Homeland Security Policy Institute’s Presidential Transition Task Force, not as a member, noting the group was a university think-tank, not part of the Obama administration official transition team.”

Nidal Hasan on Obama’s Security Task Force…………..

Now we have a little insight into why Obama said to not jump to conclusions about Nidal Hasan and why Congressmen were not briefed before the press leak.

This murdering Muslim Terrorist who killed and wounded the soldiers and civilians at Ft Hood, Texas was an advisor to Obama’s Homeland Security team. Look on page 29 of the Homeland Security Institute link below.

I wonder how many more skeletons there are to come to of the cupboard. Who else is there in the government or its numerous advisors or Czars that will harm our country and citizens?

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf

Go to page number 29, scroll down toward the bottom on the Left Column
He is listed under “THINKING ANEW- SECURITY PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION”, as Nidal Hasan, Uniformed Serv ices University School of Medicine (8TH DOWN ON LEFT COLUMN PAGE 29).

Please send this link to everybody on your email list. The world needs to know who Obama really is. This is very scary guys.

When ever i hear any liberal talk about
openess, fairness, or transparency
I know to run for the hills
duck into my foxhole
and prepare for an onslaught of lies
distortions and outright treason..

and here we go again..

Now obama and the democraps
who all screamed about 9/11 and the truth commission report
or the so called rush to judgement..

now all of a sudden are covering up for an islamic jihadist traitor terrorist,,

Tell me it isnt so..

SIGH………………

maverick muse on November 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM

Agreed; But there is supposed to be “separation of powers”. It doesn’t appear that there is at this time;
This P.O.S. is pushing the limits of the Constitution; And the thing I find unacceptable is, there’s no fail-safe.