Human Rights Groups Pressure Obama Administration
[Guest post by DRJ]
More and more, the human rights honeymoon with the Obama Administration appears to be over:
“Three human rights groups today lashed out at the Obama administration for refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents related to the treatment of detainees, saying the Obama administration’s “persistent secrecy becomes more inexcusable by the day.”
The three groups are Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. They want the Obama Administration to respond to FOIA requests for documents regarding two Yemeni detainees as well as interrogation techniques used on Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is one area where I support the Administration. I hope it doesn’t lose its resolve if the political pressure intensifies, as I suspect it will.
— DRJ
Of course, because torture is the American way, NOT the totalitarian way.
JEA (492102) — 9/19/2009 @ 5:43 pmJEA is nothing if not consistent. It would be easier to agree with Barcky on this if he and his ilk had not grandstanded and demagogued this issue for years. JEA just proves how mendoucheous the Left is on this topic.
JD (8d3f8f) — 9/19/2009 @ 5:52 pm“Of course, because torture is the American way, NOT the totalitarian way.”
Huh?
daleyrocks (718861) — 9/19/2009 @ 5:57 pmThey don’t seem too concerned about the detainee who held up the threatening sign and was taken into custody by the secret service a few weeks ago. And that was likely an American citizen.
j curtis (baef6f) — 9/19/2009 @ 6:01 pmBarack Obama played the Amnesty International dorks really really hard. I bet they look at each other all the time and the one Amnesty dork says I totally knew he was playing us and the other Amnesty dork says you did not you liar you thought he was totally anti torture and stuff… you still have like ten of his bumper stickers on your car and the first Amnesty dork is like do not.
happyfeet (6b707a) — 9/19/2009 @ 6:05 pmHe stood in torture central in Cairo, and didn’t say a word, where the bulk of mid level AQ like
bishop (4e0dda) — 9/19/2009 @ 6:18 pmthe late Hamza Rabia, Abu Ubeida al Masri, Abu Haf Al Masri, (a planner of black hawk down, and referred in the first PDB)came from. So now he cares about Abu Ghraib, not Abu Gharib, what the
Arabs call their own torture, so he’s a hypocrite
LOL
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JD (8d3f8f) — 9/19/2009 @ 6:19 pmIf there is an anti-democracy, anti-capitalist, anti-US, anti-military position to be considered, somewhere along the line, o will take it.
Jim (582155) — 9/19/2009 @ 7:16 pmthe other Amnesty dork says you did not you liar you thought he was totally anti torture and stuff
Actually he said: well, you know, like, you did not totally lie, you liar you thought he was totally anti torture and like, you know, stuff.
Obama could finally do something useful if he would tell these phonies to stuff it. But to be consistent, he would have to say the same thing to himself.
Terry Gain (f3f8a5) — 9/19/2009 @ 9:23 pm“If there is an anti-democracy, anti-capitalist, anti-US, anti-military position to be considered, somewhere along the line, o will take it.”
So the Afghanistan surge is anti-American and anti-military. Who would’ve guessed?
JEA (397bf7) — 9/20/2009 @ 5:30 amI think obama will hold off on this until it reaches critical mass (world’s attention) and then, with a great to do, release the stuff so it does the maximum damage to the USA, afterall isn’t that what he is all about?
J (0f2b1a) — 9/20/2009 @ 5:39 amTell us something, JEA – if we weren’t already in Afghanistan, do you think Obama would have gone there after 9/11? Extra points if you can explain how waterboarding worked on KSM, yet you weren’t screeching about it when our own solders went through similar actions during their own training.
Let’s hear it, Poncey – Boy.
Dmac (a93b13) — 9/20/2009 @ 6:49 amJEA – I don’t think that Obama will manage the Afghan war well. And I think that many of his close associates (both in and out of government and Congress) are pushing the public case for unilateral withdrawal. (And no I don’t think this makes G. Will an Obama supporter.)
Have Blue (854a6e) — 9/20/2009 @ 7:30 am“So the Afghanistan surge is anti-American and anti-military. Who would’ve guessed?”
Except the rules of engagement have been changed, so, now there are more US soldiers there to get killed because they are not permitted to shoot at anyone. Still anti-military, anti-US, anyway you shake it, jea.
[I’m not sure why it went there but I found this in and released it from the filter. — DRJ]
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