{"id":8704,"date":"2009-03-14T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T02:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2009-03-14T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T02:11:28","slug":"what-does-dumping-the-term-%e2%80%9cenemy-combatant%e2%80%9d-really-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8704","title":{"rendered":"What does dumping the Term \u201cEnemy Combatant\u201d Really Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/us-defines-its-claim-to-detention-power\/\">Damn Thing<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama Administration disclosed on Friday that it will no longer claim the power to detain terrorism suspects under the label \u201cenemy combatant,\u201d even while claiming broad authority to detain those who are a part of terrorist networks or who supplied \u201csubstantial support\u201d to such forces. The authority, it said, extends to places other than battlefields if Afghanistan, but did not say where else detainees might be seized. . . . Here is the definition of detention authority, without the label \u201cenemy combatant,\u201d that the Obama Administration outlined Friday: \u201cThe President has the authority to detain persons that the President determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, and persons who harbored those responsible for those attacks. The President also has the authority to detain persons who were part of, or substantially supported, Taliban or al-Qaida forces or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act, or has directly supported hostilities, in aid of such enemy armed forces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you dumb ass lefties see the difference between the Obama and Bush detainee policies?  No?  That\u2019s because there isn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n<p>This is not change.  You were punked!<\/p>\n<p>This is like changing the name of Guantanamo and then sending out a press release saying that nobody is currently in Guantanamo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not One Damn Thing! The Obama Administration disclosed on Friday that it will no longer claim &hellip; <a title=\"What does dumping the Term \u201cEnemy Combatant\u201d Really Mean?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8704\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does dumping the Term \u201cEnemy Combatant\u201d Really Mean?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}