Here’s mistake number one. Closing Guantanamo is stupid. And he hasn’t been in office a week yet. This one will severely weaken the U.S. in terms of fighting terrorism here, and abroad. This is the biggest boneheaded move he could have made, and he made it already. Wow. Stupidity really runs deep within the Democrat Party.
Five, count them, five fucking executive orders in two days. Wonder what previous presidents did? Carter, one. Clinton, one. Reagan, Nixon, Bush 1; zero.
This asshole thinks he’s a dictator already. In case you were wondering, Executive Orders (EOs) are legally binding orders given by the President, acting as the head of the Executive Branch, to Federal Administrative Agencies. Executive Orders are generally used to direct federal agencies and officials in their execution of congressionally established laws or policies. However, in many instances they have been used to guide agencies in directions contrary to congressional intent as he is doing now.
Obama to Close Guantanamo and Foreign Prisons, Limit CIA Methods
President Obama is expected to sign “several” executive orders on Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to close its network of “black sites,” or secret foreign prisons, and order the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within a year.
The executive orders, aimed at rolling back much of former President Bush’s architecture for the war on terror, involve “altering CIA detention and interrogation rules, limiting interrogation standards in all U.S. facilities worldwide to those outlined in the Army Field Manual, and prohibiting the agency from secretly holding terrorist detainees in third-country prisons,” the Washington Post said citing sources familiar with the briefings.
The New York Times said the “orders would bring to an end a Central Intelligence Agency program that kept terrorism suspects in secret custody for months or years,” and “also prohibit the CIA from using coercive interrogation methods.”
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