U.S. Won’t Label Terror Suspects as ‘Combatants’
But the Department of Justice filing portrayed the adjustment of the government’s position in expansive terms. In a public statement accompanying its filing, the department said the government’s position had been devised to adhere closely to the requirements of the international law of war, longstanding principles that permit enemy fighters to be held until the completion of hostilities. Full Story »
Posted by Peter L. Combs
Just as Eisenhower left Kennedy with the bay of pigs. Bush one left Clinton with Waco, Bush two has left a complicated mess that holdovers are handling until the new administration can get all of its people on board. Many problems are going to have to be solved, and until the whole Obama team is on board, he will get his news filtered through Bush loyalist that have stayed around until they can be replaced.