{"id":4769,"date":"2009-05-13T07:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2009-05-13T07:38:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T12:38:43","slug":"raise-your-hands-if-you-didnt-see-this-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4769","title":{"rendered":"Raise Your Hands If You Didn&#8217;t See This Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/02gitmo.html?_r=4&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">keep the military tribunals.<\/a> The ones he campaigned against.\u00a0 The ones the hard-left took out second loans on the Volvo to try to bring pressure against.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama administration officials \u2014 and Mr. Obama himself \u2014 have said in the past that they were not ruling out prosecutions in the military commission system. But senior officials have emphasized that they prefer to prosecute terrorism suspects in existing American courts. When President Obama suspended Guant\u00e1namo cases after his inauguration on Jan. 20, many participants said the military commission system appeared dead.But in recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe more they look at it,\u201d said one official, \u201cthe more commissions don\u2019t look as bad as they did on Jan. 20.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And we have a &#8220;Most Transparent Administration Ever!&#8221; alert:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several officials insisted on anonymity because the administration has directed that no one publicly discuss the deliberations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prediction: when lefties say they&#8217;ll discontinue military tribunals, it means that halfway into their term they&#8217;ll have Citizens Committees carrying out drumhead trials and executions on the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is going to keep the military tribunals. The ones he campaigned against.\u00a0 The ones the hard-left took out second loans on the Volvo to try to bring pressure against. Obama administration officials \u2014 and Mr. Obama himself \u2014 have said in the past that they were not ruling out prosecutions in the military commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}