President Obama in the Oval Office (Official White House/ Pete Souza)
Liberals Ignore Obama's Guantanamos -- James Kirchick, New York Daily News
The same people who excoriated Bush's war on terror are letting Obama do as he pleases
In a city full of them, Harold Koh is Washington’s biggest hypocrite.
As the dean of Yale Law School, Koh was the most prominent critic of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies, deriding them as “executive muscle-flexing.” The former President, Koh said, was the “torturer-in-chief.” In a 2002 interview with The New York Times, he referred to the war on terror as “legally undeclared” and questioned the administration’s right to kill terrorists on the battlefield. “What factual showing will demonstrate that they had warlike intentions against us and who sees that evidence before any action is taken?” he asked.
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My Comment: I have been saying the same thing for the past few years. Where are the anti-war protestors? Critics on Guantanamo? Protests in the Congress? Questions from the media?
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