Quote:‘We do not want a situation where the executive is defying the courts,” a senior Obama administration official told the Washington Post.

I thought Barry was supposed to be some kind of Constitutional Scholar. If that's the case he doesn't want to abide by a Supreme Court Ruling that supports trying terrorists in military tribunals.

Quote:The administration claims that it simply had to send six detainees from lockup in Guantanamo Bay to al-Qaeda Central in Yemen. A federal judge had found that there was insufficient evidence to hold one of them as an enemy combatant. Deducing that the cases against the other five were equally weak or worse, the Justice Department decided that all six should be sprung.

Wow!!! Six not relocated to other detention facilities but set free in a terrorist haven. I feel safer knowing we gave these people their constitutional rights... that's right they don't have these rights SINCE THEY'RE NOT US CITIZENS!!!

Quote:Those were just the Yemenis. White House officials did not comment to the Post on the administration’s equally indefensible decision to send another half-dozen detainees to Afghanistan and Somaliland — which, like dumping jihadists in Yemen, is tantamount to sending them back to al-Qaeda.

So that's twelve hostiles set free in terrorist havens, but it's the right thing to do, I'm sure al-Qaeda now sees us differently and no longer wants to do harm to the US.

Quote:Writing for the Supreme Court in Chicago & Southern Air Lines v. Waterman S.S. Corp. (1948), Justice Robert Jackson, whom Attorney General Holder claims as a role model, explained that, because matters related to national defense are the most important ones, the Framers ensured that there would be political accountability for the officials making security decisions. As he put it, such decisions are

wholly confided by our Constitution to the political departments of the government, Executive and Legislative. They are delicate, complex, and involve large elements of prophecy. They are and should be undertaken only by those directly responsible to the people whose welfare they advance or imperil. They are decisions of a kind for which the Judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities nor responsibility and which has long been held to belong in the domain of political power not subject to judicial intrusion or inquiry.

Could that Supreme Court justice have been wrong?!?

The Constitutional Crisis and the Security Crisis