Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor: "A Pair of Testicles Fell Off the President After Election Day"

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/former-guantanamo-chief-prosecutor-pair-testicles-fell-president-after-election-day/1320935259

Morris Davis speaks bluntly about some of President Barack Obama's policy decisions.

"There's a pair of testicles somewhere between the Capital Building and the White House that fell off the president after Election Day <2008>," said Davis, an Air Force colonel who spent two years as the chief prosecutor of Guantanamo military commissions, during an interview at his Washington, DC, office over the summer and in email correspondence over the past several months. "He got his butt kicked. Not just with Guantanamo but with national security in general. I'm sure there are a few areas here and there where there have been 'change,' but to me it seems like a third Bush term when it comes to national security."

Davis is "hugely disappointed" that Obama reneged on a campaign promise to reject military commissions for "war on terror" detainees, which human rights advocates and defense attorneys have condemned as unconstitutional.

The first military commission of the Obama administration got underway earlier this week with the arraignment of Abd Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, who is facing terrorism and murder charges, began earlier this week. If convicted, Nashiri, one of three so-called high-value detainees that the Bush administration admitted was subjected to the drowning technique known as waterboarding and other brutal torture methods at CIA black site prisons, could be executed.

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[Maccagirl]

1. Wow, what a misleading headline

I thought we had a Curtis LeMay, Jr. here. Reading the article DOES give one perpective after all.

[Fumesucker]

2. Morris Davis owes me a fucking lung..

Recced..

[Hepburn]

3. KnR...n/t

[Autumn]

4. Excellent article and right to the truth

K/R

[dipsydoodle]

5. Bushlite Obama

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[Gregorian]

6. The Pentagon runs America. After all, look at the percentage of taxes they get.

They run the country. Even Dick Cheney had to walk around making sure he could do the things he did.

[Nye Bevan]

7. Equating having guts and a spine with "a pair of testicles" is sexist and demeaning to women (nt)

[SidDithers]

8. Unrec...nt

Sid