CBS: Gitmo Ruling ‘A Big Legal Setback for the President's War on Terror’

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Katie Couric, CBS At the top of Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric referred to a recent court ruling to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees as: "A big legal setback for the president's war on terror." Couric later introduced a report on the ruling and reiterated the idea of the ruling being a defeat solely for President Bush: "...a federal judge ruled today that five suspects held at Guantanamo Bay must be released...it's a major defeat for the Bush administration in its final days."

In the report, correspondent Wyatt Andrews described how: "Defense lawyers call it a victory for American justice and the beginning of the end for Guantanamo." Andrews cited one attorney, Stephen Olesky: " I think many forces are now working toward the closure of Guantanamo and toward ensuring that many of these men who have been held for so long under such desperate circumstances get home." Andrews concluded the report: "...the ruling starts a nightmare for the Pentagon. The military now faces an oncoming rush of 200 Guantanamo appeals, not to mention an incoming president who wants to close the camp altogether." One wonders if CBS will be using the phrase "president’s war on terror" with President Obama.

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Here is the full transcript of the segment:

6:30PM TEASE:

KATIE COURIC: A big legal setback for the president's war on terror.

6:38PM SEGMENT:

KATIE COURIC: Turning now to the war on terror, a federal judge ruled today that five suspects held at Guantanamo Bay must be released. As Wyatt Andrews reports, it's a major defeat for the Bush administration in its final days.

WYATT ANDREWS: It's the first time a federal judge has ordered the release of any Guantanamo detainees, who the Pentagon calls enemies of the United States, and it came in the case of six Algerians President Bush accused of targeting the US Embassy in Sarajevo.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Our soldiers, working with the Bosnian government, seized terrorists who were plotting to bomb our embassy.

ANDREWS: But the government had to drop the bombing charges, and Judge Richard Leon ruled the remaining evidence wasn't good enough to hold five of the six detainees '...on so thin a reed.'

STEPHEN OLESKY: Overwhelmed.

ANDREWS: Defense lawyers call it a victory for American justice and the beginning of the end for Guantanamo.

OLESKY: I think many forces are now working toward the closure of Guantanamo and toward ensuring that many of these men who have been held for so long under such desperate circumstances get home.

ANDREWS: Because of government appeals, none of the detainees will be released anytime soon, but the ruling starts a nightmare for the Pentagon. The military now faces an oncoming rush of 200 Guantanamo appeals, not to mention an incoming president who wants to close the camp altogether. The Justice Department complains it had to withhold its most secret evidence because of a court ruling it had to share it all with the defense. Still, after a week's worth of other secret testimony against men held for almost seven years, a federal judge appointed by President Bush has said there's no case. Wyatt Andrews, CBS News, Washington.

—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Gitmo..

I know a BIG bunch of MSM jerks that should have been thrown behind those same bars.

Which President CBS

Did CBS mean our current Presdient or their beloved President.

As Wyatt Andrews reports,

As Wyatt Andrews reports, it's a major defeat for the Bush administration in its final days.

   Yes, it will be nice to get back to the situation where our embassies are bombed, hostages are taken and we demand that the terrorists stop doing that.  Maybe obama can even get some of jimmie carters cardigan sweaters to wear as he speaks to the nation about the difficult negotiations that his administration is involved in.

One nice thing about Obama

One nice thing about Obama taking the reigns is that Gitmo is his problem now.  It will be interesting to see how it gells out.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Political Juice

Obama has the political capital to rein these judges in. A mere glance from him will send chills down the spine of an activist Federal Judge.

All he has to do is modify tweak the Military Tribuinals Act slightly to nullify Boumedine v Bush and pronounce the problem solved.

And there is dancing in the

And there is dancing in the streets, reminisent (sp?) of Victory in WWII. Hooray -- there is no more terror in the world; thus, no more need for a war on terror. Let's rejoice, Couric, while Rome burns. DOLT!

"OLESKY: I think many forces are now working toward the closure of Guantanamo and toward ensuring that many of these men who have been held for so long under such desperate circumstances get home". Send them home? Why? Simply integrate them into our neighborhoods. Wouldn't that be more in line with stupid liberal thinking?

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How about

How about putting them up in Billy Ayers home?  All of these "innocents" could live together in peace and harmony.  Billy has a big place, identifies with these a$$holes and, best of all, could get them into that great Chicago school system.

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy

Yes, Kato, let's be sure

Yes, Kato, let's be sure "these men get home."

How about you head up a collection to get them some nice new RPGs and SAMs as parting gifts on their way out.

And we'll rename the President's War on Terror to Chutes & Ladders.

Forgive me

Isn't this a setback for all Americans Katie?  I would like to think that setting free a bunch of terrorists plotting to kill Americans would be a bad thing for all of us, not just President Bush.

Of course, that would mean that Katie had an interest in doing anything other than bashing President Bush and putting Obama on a pedestal.

Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July.  Democrats believe every day is April 15th ~ Ronald Reagan

Correct/  I invite Mr

Correct/

 I invite Mr Stephen Olesky to sit at a table in the lobby of the New York Times while I release the Guantanamo Detainees at the front door.

Naturally, I will place five unloaded AK-47 Rifles on a table ten paces into the lobby.  A further ten paces in there will be five fully loaded 30 round magazines on another table.

Mr Olesky, how far from that second table will you be willing to sit calmly during this prisoner release??????????  Inquiring minds want to know.

Rendition vs Gitmo? Let the voters decide

'Extraordinary Rendition vs Gitmo?  Keep Gitmo open, or revert back to the Clinton/Gore policy of rendition? Let the voters decide.

It was a shocker, seeing Charlie Rose squirm in his chair as D/CIA Gen. Hayden informed Rose of what everyone should had known by then;  Rendition - that policy of taking a captured suspected terrorist secretly off someplace like Egypt, Israel or Turkey so we could let others torture them to garner intelligence. With all of the MSM's spinning attention on issues such as Rendition and Gitmo and torture, etc. - how could someone like Charlie Rose not actually read Richard Clark's book:

According to Clinton administration official Richard Clarke:

“ 'extraordinary renditions', were operations to apprehend terrorists abroad, usually without the knowledge of and almost always without public acknowledgment of the host government…. The first time I proposed a snatch, in 1993, the White House Counsel, Lloyd Cutler, demanded a meeting with the President to explain how it violated international law. Clinton had seemed to be siding with Cutler until Al Gore belatedly joined the meeting, having just flown overnight from South Africa. Clinton recapped the arguments on both sides for Gore: "Lloyd says this. Dick says that. Gore laughed and said, 'That's a no-brainer. Of course it's a violation of international law, that's why it's a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.'"

Rose found out that the US policy of rendition was established by Bill Clinton, in the mid 90's, with Al Gore urging him on; that the US had conducted about as many of these renditions prior to 9/11 as after; about 50 each. 

Rose then found out that once the Bush administration had established the Guantanamo facilities - the controversial secret policy of rendition was not required anymore. Why? We had a place to take them, to hold them and to question them - and using methods far more acceptable to the methods, by others, previously accepted by the prior administration.

Rose almost instantly understood the importance of what he had learned - that which from that instant forward - our MSM would continue to keep off the table of public discussion - common sense:

ROSE: But you have nowhere else you can take them, other than to some foreign country where you turn it over to some foreign government.

D/CIA: Well, I'm open to ideas. I can keep them. That's detention. I can move them to a foreign government. That's rendition. We can move them to Guantanamo.

ROSE: I think most Americans would prefer detention or Guantanamo, I think, because you're putting people in the hands of other people and you're just going on just a promise

Yes they would Charlie - if the media would simply report the news.

Hey, there was another option; that we played by all of the Genova rules. In that scenerio, we would be limited to name, rank and serial number - but, on the other hand, we'd be able to keep all of the captured terrorists until they surrendered - until the war is won. No charges need be filed. No courts. No trials. Simply hold 'em and feed 'em.

(;~/ gary

Ironic Icing on the Cake...

and once these demonic killers are freed, their county's are tending to deny them entry, which sends them to our shores. I am sure none of them will be near Katie's neighborhood however.

Side note: It appears little Katie has been re-injected...looking mighty STIFF above the brows there Katie!!! And she has the Spock eyebrows, kinda like Biden's in the last debate....creepy.

Don't you just love how all

Don't you just love how all the talking head leftists take glee whenever a ruling goes against the big-bad-Bush administration, even if it was something that was ruled on that may have saved their very own ungrateful, lazy, leftists arses...

Newsflash, Olesky, Andrews and cupcake-sweetums-Couric...

GITMO was going to be shut down no matter who got elected, McC wanted the same thing...

Now, if we could just release all these enemies to all the enemy within own residences...I just may be agreeable to such a situation.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Possible solution

Since no one wants the GITMO boys stashed in their backyard, perhaps we could just dump them back in the country they were taken from and make sure that if we encounter them again on the battlefield there are no prisoners. 

And  if we don't run into them in the next month or so they become Obama's problem - any killing they do will be "blood on his hands."

Just dump them all in the lobby of the CBS building.

Or better yet, Katie's driveway.

:-)

-Dave

Did this country just elect Obama/Biden, or was it Soros/Ayers?

"The President's"

Try the American people you twit!

Hey Katie! How 'bout we

Hey Katie! How 'bout we release those poor victims of the eviiiil American Military into your backyard at Martha's Vinyard? Maybe you could invite them over for a party? They were just so misunderstood after all.

 

No Katie, you silly twit,

No Katie, you silly twit, it's a major defeat for the safety of all Americans!!!

Save Conservatism - Dump The GOP?

 

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security

 

 

 HMMMMM!  Typ liberaliaim . Our security down the tubes and the MSM is Giddy.

WTC

 

 If the WTC is ever rebuilt I think the top three floors should be for the MSM. 

Liberalism is a mental disorder

Only drugged up liberals could get excited about releasing terrorists to go back and start killing our soldiers who fought to put them away. Absolute insanity.

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Now you know who libs are

Now you know who libs are really talking about when they say, "Bring them home!!"

 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Gitmo should be emptied....

....with the former inmates being flown to New York City, and bused to Central Park, where each would be given $50,000 , a green card, a rousing speech by Hizzoner and released.  Seems fair to both the ex-detainees and the East Coast libs...they could celebrate multiculturalism together...

wna... Sounds like the

wna...

Sounds like the perfect plan to me.

Bloomberg/Patterson (sp) could give them the Keys to the City and apologize for all their troubles. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Thank you Katie...

for pointing out that our current president has waged a war on terror. And at the same time admitting that imbeciles like yourself do not believe in a war on terrorism.  

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Once more for the imbeciles

Once more for the imbeciles at CBS, I will write slowly so you will be able to understand.

It is NOT the Presidents war on terror you dumb asses!  It is AMERICAS war on terror!

I don't know, we might have the spectacle of watching Katie get her head cut off live on CBS if they keep ignoring the threats we face.

These lunkheads will be the first to go!  I have just about had it with the whole lot of 'em, and don't really care what happens to anyone in the media.  They would have brought it upon themselves.

It is NOT the Presidents

It is NOT the Presidents war on terror you dumb asses!  It is AMERICAS war on terror!

You're exactly right.  Freakin idiots!  They say it that way for ONE REASON.....Bush Derangement Syndrome.  They believe it's Bush's war because they hate Bush more than they like their own country, nevermind bin Laden and Co. declaring war on the USA, on a CNN video camera, in 1997.  Nah, nevermind that, nevermind 9/11, that didn't happen.  Nevermind the USS Cole, nevermind 1993 WTC bombing, nevermind all that made up nonsense.  It's all just a figment of Bush's imagination.  Freakin IDIOTS!!

What will MSM say

will Obama has to do some of the very same things Bush has done to combat terrorism?  Will they turn on him like ravening wolves as they did with Bush?  Will they discover it is so very important to kill all the terrorists because the O says so?

It is a certain bet that Katie will be singing the praises of O for whatever he does.  If it weren't so serious, it would be funny to see how quickly MSM will spin 180 on issues regarding homeland security.

No, its going to be a

No, its going to be a utopian setup for these fools.  When something goes bad it will be because Bush put us in some situation Obama had no control over.  If something goes good, it will be because Obama is the man and did what Bush couldn't do.  Just wait until bin Laden is captured or killed, they'll be printing new bibles with a chapter on Obama.   Nevermind the 8 years of intelligence gathering under Bush, the rebuilding of that which Clinton raped away and left for dead which had to be resurrected not only for normal times, but for a crisis known as 9/11.  Nah, nevermind all that rebuild and complete change of focus on 9/12 and ever since.  Nevermind that, if bin Laden is taken out under Obama, you can be sure it will be 100% Obama's doing.

"Just wait until bin Laden is captured..."

And then what? Where will Obama jail bin Laden if Gitmo is closed? Where would they jail Ayman al-Zawahiri if captured? Where will he put captured oil tanker pirates? Will they be given Miranda warnings if jailed in the US? Will they be given a lawyer if they can't afford one? Jury of their peers...?

Precisely. I am gonna LOVE

Precisely.
I am gonna LOVE watching the civilian attourneys in the Obama Justice dept attempting to find a civil law that some of these guys can be prosecuted for.

After all, sniping at US troops in the mountains of Afghanistan and even killing one is not prosecuteable in the Superior court, is it?

How about the guy who was smuggling ammunition across the border under orders from old Aymen Zawahiri. What legal violation can he be prosecuted for in LA?

THe liberal IDIOTS watch way too much LAW AND ORDER at night and think that is reality.

The next point. Since we

The next point. Since we will now release these guys since they were not treied, can they sue the US government?

If yes, can all the surviving German, Italian, and Japanese POW of WWII sue the US government for similarly not holding a judicial proceding while they were in captivity in Nebraska?

Idiots.

Then what might be worse - Presidential Pardons

If we thought Billy Boy stepped over the line, can you imagine what O will do when it is time to leave (that is if he doesn't try to stay by military force ala Hitler.)

The dumping of anti-American criminals into our system during this guy's reign will probably be the death blow to whatever remains of the structure our Founding Fathers put in place.

Sad

And when they kill again, who's defet will you atribute that to Katie? Or will you dare even mention it? 

I am appalled by your apathy, who do you think you are helping?

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

OK

Release them in DC.

Perfect Solution

Make them cab drivers in DC. Sooner or later they will have to drive someone to the hood and then that all folks. The muslim taxi drivers dont like picking up blacks at night. The cops have caught them doing it and make them take the fares. Usually ends badly for the driver.

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

duck and cover

sadly, it's going take alot of u.s. citizens getting killed in an attack. probably through some gross negilgence of the o cabinet members. the msm will  run for cover. how do you cover-up a hole where a city used to be. a guess you could call it a "Gas leak" or some other nonsense. they're not going back to being a cub reporter at a local paper and give up those hi-paying gigs. i think loading the gitmo prisoners on a transport. 4 groups of fifty and drop them off in selected cities with all the weapons they can carry at midnite jan.19....we'll see how dangerous they are.