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Ashcroft: Obama, Bush Detainee Policies Exactly
The Same
Only difference is how they spell their names
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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that the Obama
administration's policies concerning the 'war on terror' represent
a direct and unwavering continuation of the Bush administration's
approach.
In an interview with the New
Yorker’s Jane Mayer, Ashcroft noted that
the only difference between Obama and Bush on detainee policy
will likely be how they spell their names:
John Ashcroft, who was Attorney General when
Marri was designated an enemy combatant, makes no…apologies.
Interviewed just before the Inauguration, he defended what
he described as a “sound decision” to “maximize
the national interest,” and predicted that, in the end,
President Obama’s approach to handling terror suspects
would closely mirror his own: “How will he be different?
The main difference is going to be that he spells his name
‘O-b-a-m-a,’ not ‘B-u-s-h.’”
Ashcroft is best known for his stated desire to introduce camps
for U.S. citizens deemed to be "enemy combatants".
Ashcroft's plan, which
made headlines back in 2002, called for the indefinite
incarceration of U.S. citizens, with the authority to strip
them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts
system.
It is far from comforting then that Ashcroft sees no change
whatsoever in Obama's approach to the war on terror.
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Earlier this month we
reported on the fact that one of Obama's first
actions in office was to sign an executive order securing the
continued practice of secretly capturing, transporting and imprisoning
so called "enemy combatants".
Indeed, Obama's much lauded declaration to "ban"
torture and his commitment to close down detention facilities
are chocked full of loopholes
and hidden
clauses designed to allow such practices and premises
to be continued.
Yesterday the New
York Times even ran a detailed piece on how Obama's
war on terror resembles Bush's war on terror a little too closely
for comfort, pointing out the following facts:
- In little-noticed confirmation testimony, Obama nominees
have endorsed continuing the C.I.A.’s program of extraordinary
rendition and indefinite detention of terrorism suspects without
trials.
- The administration has embraced the Bush legal team’s
arguments that a lawsuit by former C.I.A. detainees should
be shut down based on the “state secrets” doctrine.
- The Obama administration has left the door open to resuming
military commission trials.
- The Obama administration signaled a continuation of Bush
era policies when it threatened to cease all intelligence
ties with Britain if it revealed that a British suspect held
at Guantanamo Bay had been tortured into confessing to being
part of a dirty bomb plot.
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