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November 29, 2009
In Only A Few Weeks Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns
Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns: Who is Accountable Now?
by Warner Todd Huston
Earlier this month Obama fired Greg Craig, his main counsel on matters concerning the Guantanamo Bay Facility. And this week Obama sheds another one of his GITMO team with the resignation of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Detainee Policy, Phillip Carter.
It appears that Obama’s GITMO team is being systematically eliminated. One has to ask, why? The only real answer has to be that Obama is setting up some plausible deniability by firing or forcing the resignation of officials involved with GITMO policy. Once enough of these people are gone, Obama can look wide-eyed to the public and claim that he was badly served by his GITMO advisers and, therefore, it isn’t his fault.
Unfortunately for Obama the failure is not with the staff but with the chief himself, Obama.
Obama has allowed Attny Gen. Holder to reveal his utter ignorance by pushing for civilian trials of some GITMO detainees while at the same time arbitrarily denying such a privilege to others. Obama has also backed this plan despite that there is no precedent in American history for such trials.
And now the officials in charge of these decisions are being let go with no replacements announced, leaving mounting questions about just what the administrations policies are and who is responsible for carrying them out.
With Carter so unexpectedly gone, many questions remain unanswered about Obama’s detainee policy. Now, there is no one to answer these questions. By what legal authority does the administration hold some 75 detainees without civilian trials? On the other hand, what is the legal authority that some are getting civilian trials? How will these detainees that are getting civilian trials be secured and where?
In any case, it seems pretty obvious that Obama is getting rid of as many people on his GITMO policy team as possible so that he can claim that his failures are not his fault but are the failures of the departing team members. But will the American people buy this deception?
Wild Thing's comment............
His “my dog ate my homework” excuses for personal and policy failures are so transparent .
This whole mess is coming right from the top....OBAMA. He can fire all the officials he wants over this, and blow all the smokescreens and make all the excuses he wants. He owns this stupid decision. He'll look like a fool trying to blame someone else.
The opinion speculated about in th ewrite up is they were fired, that might be true, even if the indivuduals gave some other reason. It has to do with Obama and those he picked earlier after all I would not trust any of them.
Greg Craig resigned Nov. 13 and now the second one Cater.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 29, 2009 04:45 AM
Comments
The jug-eared-jack-ass. The quicker phukker upper. Pretty much everything he touches.
I'll tell you what, there are those over here in the Sandbox that laugh when his name is mentioned - and even if they don't laugh out loud, they don't hesitate to snicker. And, we're talking just regular normal folks [well, as normal as they can be for being part of the majority of a rock-worshiping cult, here]. It would be interesting to see how much more influential "folks" over here reacted to the mere mention of his name but those in high places are not, for obvious reasons, part of a group we are ever in touch with. Even more interesting though is that those same people were soooo excited about him becoming cic last November. Now? Not so much. Empty suit. Laughing stock. Same same.
I've given the jeja a new nickname of late. Due to his dithering on his decision over Afghanistan. "dIc." ditherer in chief.
Truly I don't ever recall in my entire lifetime loathing someone as much as I do him.
[If this is too offensive, feel free to remove it WT.]
Posted by: BT in SA at November 29, 2009 11:10 AM
obama's looking for fall guys to take the blame when this whole damn thing blows up in his face. With the NY trials and his pacification it's coming.
Posted by: Mark at November 29, 2009 07:39 PM
BT in SA, that is perfect for a name for him.
I really appreciate hearing about what they
say in the Sandbox, thank you so much.
I agree BT, I feel the same way.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 29, 2009 11:46 PM
Mark, I agree, he will too. He can't keep
blaming Bush so he has to find new blood
to blame.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 29, 2009 11:47 PM
