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POTUS planning to send ISIS to Gitmo with new executive order
2017-02-09
[Right Scoop] The Trump White House is nearing completion of an order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining the effort to combat the group, according to administration officials and a draft executive order obtained by The New York Times.

White House officials have detailed their thinking about a new detainee policy in an evolving series of drafts of an executive order being circulated among national security officials for comment. While previous versions have shown that the draft has undergone many changes ‐ including dropping language about reviving C.I.A. prisons ‐ the plan to add Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo population has remained constant.

The latest version of the draft, which circulated this week, would direct Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to use Guantánamo to detain suspected members of "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, including individuals and networks associated with the Islamic State."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Pork for every meal.

At mealtimes the lads grew irascible,
Debating which choice was more rational,
To wit, which was cleaner,
Your normal pork wiener,
Or huge, juicy, fat Hebrew National.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-02-09 23:18  

#7  Please no soccer fields, Korans, or special food-- Pork for every meal. Make them not to want come back.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-02-09 15:50  

#6   Hopefully 0bean is finding relief by banging his head on the corner of a filing cabinet about now.

Sounds like he'd be in an office; that's too much work for him.
Posted by: Raj   2017-02-09 13:18  

#5  If they are not in uniform and following other rules of the Geneva Conventions, they are illegal combatants,not POWS. According to the GC, they can be given a drum head court martial and then executed. After we've wrung them dry of any useful intelligence.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-02-09 10:56  

#4  I think you'd find him somewhere in a smokey, oblivious haze.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 09:09  

#3  ...that would imply he had a conscious and a soul.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-09 09:07  

#2  Hopefully 0bean is finding relief by banging his head on the corner of a filing cabinet about now.
Posted by: gorb   2017-02-09 08:56  

#1  More raids similar to the recent undertaking in Yemen are likely coming. The return of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection and exploitation is gaining ground.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 03:21  

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