Rather Than Dealing With the Gitmo Questions, White House Unveils New Kill Or Release Policy For Terrorists
The White House’s kill or release policy.
Fox — Usama bin Laden has been killed. The U.S. is poised to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. And the Obama administration’s shift in counterterrorism strategy from land wars to precision strikes and raids is raising concerns that the White House has adopted a policy of targeting killings for terror suspects.
With no new detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay since March 2008, a top military commander told Congress recently that there is no clear policy for dealing with suspected terrorist leaders who are captured overseas.
In many cases, the suspects are taken to a ship offshore until a decision is approved by the White House.
Vice Adm. William McRaven, the commander of the Navy SEALs team that killed Usama bin Laden, said under questioning at a congressional testimony that the longest the U.S. can keep a suspect on the ship depends on whether the suspect can be prosecuted in a U.S. court or returned to a third-party country.
“If we can’t do either one of those, then we’ll release the individual,” McRaven said in response to questioning by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., “And that becomes the unenviable option, but it is an option.”
Posted by Brian O’Connor on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at 8:49 am | 
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pathetic policy and dangerous
Can someone say stupid, loud enough for the “O’magic One” to hear.
I guess this policy isn’t too much different than the left’s policy on unborn babies.
They would rather see the babies dead than inconvenient. And they’d rather see the terrorists dead than imprisoned at GITMO (too cruel) and what about their civil rights? The only difference is, that they are willing to let some of these dangerous terrorists go, but no unborn child escapes their grasp even if it manages to be delivered.
So, is the real reason for the change of spelling from Osama to Usama to separate Obummer from Osama?
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“If we can’t do either one of those, then we’ll release the individual,”
do you mean “let ‘em swim back”?
“Shot while attempting to escape”, seems like a reasonable policy.
Well armies used to deal with non-uniform combatants by shooting them after interrogation. Sounds like a plan to me.
Obama does not like to take political risks. If he has some terrorists detained and a big terror incident happens in the US, people are going to start raising hell that aggressive interrogation was not used.
Kill…. sounds good to me. whats the problem?