(06-05-2014 06:13 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  To anyone who knows anything about international law, this is now a full-blown mess.

To be fair to Obama, the Bush administration got this off on the wrong foot with their unilateral decision to extend the protections of the Geneva Conventions to anyone we captured in Afghanistan and Iraq (protections to which they were not entitled under the Geneva Conventions themselves, for at least two reasons, and also not entitled under settled principles of international law). We've been in legal never-never land with them ever since then. What they essentially established in Gitmo is a facility to which nobody knew what law applied or how to apply it. At this point, there is no outcome which comports with all potentially applicable laws.

Yep...I predicted that Obama would use the tools left lying around by the Bush administration. This is just another example of how power has slowly concentrated itself in the WH over many decades. Congress has NO backbone anymore and most of its members are cowards. They have freely relinquished their constitutional powers over to the POTUS. Why? The don't have to be accountable. Cowards..pure and simple.

Of course, what did Kruschev say about "destroying the U.S.? His prophesy proved true, we're headed there.

The Huffington Post is trying to help Obama by suggesting Bergdahl was captured while taking a dump although they do venture back to reality.

Quote:The question of just how Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban has become an increasingly politicized one since his release in a prisoner exchange. Some conservatives have suggested that Bergdahl was a deserter. Others, meanwhile, maintain that he was simply absent without leave. The brief intercept published by WikiLeaks as part of a much larger chronicle of Bergdahl's disappearance suggests a third course of events altogether -- that he had not even left his base.

"WE WERE ATTACKING THE POST HE WAS SITTING TAKING EXPLETIVE HE HAD NO GUN WITH HIM," reads the July 1, 2009, intercept of an apparent Taliban communication.

That intercept, which was also referred to in a 2012 Rolling Stone article, suggests the soldier had little role in his capture by the Taliban.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/05...ostpopular