What in the fuck!? How about closing Gitmo before freeing these degenerate white collor murderers?
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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You mean like Obama did? And then how he got blocked immediately?
Yeah, why didn’t we do the thing that was already done and hope for a different outcome!
Ah, yes, the "helpless executive" bullshit excuse for cowardice. Obama did not need to throw it to Congress by trying to relocate detainees to the US, they shouldn't be detained in the first place and the gov has nothing on them except Bush administration gibberish that they know can't hold up in a court of law. As commander-in-chief both he and Biden always had the power to order them released and repatriated and order their State Department to work on their repatriation with their nations of origin. That does not require any input whatsoever from Congress and not even the judiciary could stop it, it falls under broad commander-in-chief authority.
I take it you read all the prisoners' files and studied each case for hours then?
It doesn't matter. Trump released thousands of terrorists. It literally doesn't matter anymore.
Oh yeah, I've been through all the classified intel that even the detainees were not allowed to know which definitely 100% proves they're guilty and don't need a fair trial. Next time I meet with Ould Slahi I'll ask him how come he never simply requested the classified intel about him be made public so that people like you would stop making excuses for his kidnapping and torture.
people like you would stop making excuses for his kidnapping and torture.
What a douche bag-- shoving tons of words in my mouth. I don't actually know a fucking thing about your opinion except you think all the prisoners are innocent and give zero fucks if you're wrong. Looks like that's all I'll ever know 👋
Yeah, they are innocent until proven guilty in a proper court adhering to basic standards of law, and the "consequences" of releasing geriatrics kidnapped and locked in a torture camp on the other side of the world for the past couple of decades are hypothetical gibberish that has been considered and duly disregarded.
Raging against an actual hypothetical viewpoint, is kind of useless. You know nothing about my opinion and you won't know anything
Not under Executive power
To be clear, as happened with a bunch of these. They were not individual pardons. They were a batch of 1500 offenders who had non violent crimes, and were already outside of prisons on home release from covid situations. He didn't pick and choose, it was just everyone who was in that situation.
Why are you trying to soften the obvious blow here?
Yeah, maybe he fucking should have though.