Obama confirms Bush's war on terror infrastructure

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama sided with the Bush administration Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.
In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.

"The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."
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Bush has built a sound ,legal structure to deal with the war on terror.
Bush will be seen as a top ten best president.

 

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Within 30 days of his inauguration, Obama has repealed some of the most egregious of GW Bush's policies, from the planned closure of Guantanamo to a clear no torture policy to limitations of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.

The last time I checked, US controlled Guantanamo is not a war zone while most of non-US controlled Afghanstan is in a war zone, and one that the coalition is losing. The most the prisoners in Bagram can expect is fair treatment under the Geneva convention, which they clearly did not received while under GW Bush.

Obama ordered the Guantanamo center closed within a year. He set up a task force and gave it 30 days to recommend how to handle the 245 people detained there and any future detainees.

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona, Obama's election opponent, applauded the decision. "We support President Obama's decision to close the prison at Guantanamo, reaffirm America's adherence to the Geneva Conventions and begin a process that will, we hope, lead to the resolution of all cases of Guantanamo detainees," the two senators said in a statement...

In restricting interrogation policy, he ordered that American personnel follow the U.S. Army Field Manual's procedures.

The White House also announced the nominations of four top Justice Department officials, including a lawyer who sparked controversy for the Bush administration. David Kris, who raised objections to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program as a former Justice lawyer, was tapped to head the department's national security division.