Interrogating Terrorists, Obama-Style

From Jed Babbin at Human Events:

President Obama’s new executive orders on closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and limiting the permissible methods for interrogating terrorist detainees are the legal equivalent of a running back’s head fake: they mislead, and only the runner’s next move reveals his intent.

So far, the White House’s intentions aren’t clear.  One member who attended the pre-release White House briefing on the executive orders characterized the orders as confusing.  On the closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility, he said the White House was more confused than the members being briefed.  When pressed on where the inmates would go after the Guanranamo Bay facility closed, White House briefers – including counsel Greg Craig — just couldn’t answer:  none of them knew.

And that is only one part of the mis-leadership our new president engaged in with these orders.

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