Be a good place for his sorry ass to be. Permanently.
New post on Scotty Starnes's Blog |  | As Senator Obama, President Obama was critical about the use of secret military prisons being used in other countries by the US to hold al-Qaeda captives. He slammed Bush, Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for the use of CIA "black sites" and even signed an executive order to "close" them. Obama's legal adviser to the State Department, Harold Koh, was the loudest critic of the use of drones, enhanced interrogation techniques, black sites and the "war on terror." That was until Obama became president. Now we have a president who would rather obliterate terrorists than capture them. We now have a president who kills Americans, without due process, and has a secret "kill list" that has American citizens and teenagers on it. We have a president who has authorized the use of drones in the skies above America. We have a president who uses the UN, instead of seeking congressional approval, to bomb Libya. We have a president who says one thing and does another. The hypocrites have been exposed. Eli Lake reports, from The Daily Beast: So now it's official: United States soldiers have been hunting down al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia. When the White House confirmed earlier this month what has long been an open secret, most of the ensuing chatter focused on the need for greater transparency about the expanding war on terror. Less discussed was what happens to all those alleged terrorists when they're captured alive. One answer can be found here in the dusty Somali port city of Bosaso, where corrugated-metal shacks look as if they might be blown away in the next storm, and summer temperatures easily top 110 degrees. Overcrowded, underfunded, and reeking of urine, the Bosaso Central Prison could make even the most dedicated insurgent regret ever getting into the terrorism business. Many inmates don't have shoes, and instead of uniforms, they wear filthy T-shirts and ankle-length garments wrapped around their waists that resemble sarongs (called ma-awis in Somali). When I visited earlier this year, the warden, Shura Sayeed Mohammed, told me he had 393 prisoners in a place designed to hold no more than 300. He said that since 2009, he had received 16 inmates captured by Americans. Pentagon spokesman James Gregory wouldn't confirm the number of prisoners the U.S. has sent to Bosaso, only that it has handed over prisoners, "back over to where they came from." He said the U.S. is "returning them to their government, and their government takes them."Bosaso, along with other remote prisons around the world, is one of the less well-known and least-understood aspects of the war on terror. When President Barack Obama came into office, he expanded the scope of Central Intelligence Agency and military-drone operations in the Islamic world, while also taking steps to end America's role in detaining suspects captured overseas in that war. He shut the remaining CIA black site prisons in Europe, and handed over high-value Iraqi detainees to the Iraqi courts. Guantanamo Bay no longer takes new inmates, though it continues to house prisoners who haven't yet been transferred to other countries. Guess Guantanamo is too nice to hold prisoners, so Obama ships them off to sites he supposedly closed down. I guess it's OK as long as Muslims are running the prisons? Continue reading>>> Scotty Starnes | July 4, 2012 at 1:19 PM | Tags: Al-Qaeda, black sites, Bosaso, Bosaso Central Prison, Guantanamo Bay prison, Harold Koh, Hypocrite, Liar, military prisons, President Obama, secret prisons, Somalia | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-7jz | | | |
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