Page 93 - Enemy Combatant News Today

Jill, what do you make of this? a lot of people are saying this guy is a hero for what he is doing because he is exposing the unjust nature of war. we already know war sucks. >> yeah. let me start by admitting i have never read chomski. i cant go there. i also see michigan representative mike rogers who is a member of the house intelligence committee who says we know people will be killed by this information being disclosed. they dont try him with treason. they say this is a capital offense in h...

Summary execution, were going to drop a bomb on him. >> in world war ii, we had u.s. citizens we kill, targeted on the battlefield. were at war. and this guy is an enemy combatant. the president has the authority to make that determination. some groups like the aclu may not like it. but its not unsturnl, its not illegal. >> can the president say, i decided this guy is a terrorist. you might trust obama on that decision or you might not. >> thats exactly the point -- >> does he have the legal aut...

Is to challenge governmental policies that target u.s. citizens for assassination. >> reporter: but the lawyer who says that whether he gets representation should be the governments call. >> this is a war. the citizenship of an individual is not relevant. what is relevant is whether this individual is a enemy combatant who can be lawfully attacked with deadly force. >> reporter: the treasurely department said this afternoon that it will work the civil liberties group to make sure he will get leg...

Journalistic publishing. >> gregg: what about this the taliban spokesman, its coming through the documents to find the informants presumably to kill them. if assange is clearly helping the enemy, cant he be held as an enemy combatant and cant he be charged under terrorism statutes, as well. >> i absolutely believe so. forgetting about the first amendment, were talking about national security. it is clear that when up against national security first amendment is clearly subservient to national in...

United states. gee, i wonder if im on it. the national security advisor john brennan said this. >> there are though, in my mind, dozens of u.s. persons who are in different parts of the world, that are very concerning to us. >> glenn: okay. so we just shoot them. we just shoot them wherever they are. dont worry about the miranda rights or that they are american citizens. if they are the battlefield, fine, i get it. but off the battlefield, gee, im fuzzy on the whole american citizenship. lets re...

Elections, they were forced to move a little bit more to the center and they both won re-election and they are predicting president obama could be as lucky. >> they can only hope. i can tell you this this president has been a failure so far. look at the stimulus package that he promised would lower unemployment, not past 8% we know now that the stimulus $800 billion was a total failure. guantanamo he was going to close, hasnt been closed yet. remember was going to bring the terrorist who caused ...

Who pose a threat to the united states. gee, i wonder if im on it. the national security advisor john brennan said this. >> there are though, in my mind, dozens of u.s. persons who are in different parts of the world, that are very concerning to us. >> glenn: okay. so we just shoot them. we just shoot them wherever they are. dont worry about the miranda rights or that they are american citizens. if they are the battlefield, fine, i get it. but off the battlefield, gee, im fuzzy on the whole amer...

Establishing procedures for determining who was an enemy combatant in the war on terror. she compared this legislation, which passed 84-14, to the fundamentally lawless actions of dictatorship. most recently, the nominee served as solicitor general for a little over a year. but her short tenure there has not been without controversy. in her first appellate argument, miss kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the first amendment would allow the federal government to ban the...

To opposing legislation that would have banned that procedure. during her time as dean as as harvard, ms. kagan reversed existing policy and kicked the military out of the recruiting office in violation of federal law. her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our country in two wars overseas. as someone who feels the burden of sending such young men and women into harms way and who spent much time drafting and redrafting legislation to in...

Person to convince president dloint change his mind from supporting to opposing legislation to ban that procedure. at dean of harvard ms. kagan reversed harvards policy and kicked the military out of the office. her actions demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our country in two wars overseas. someone who feels the burden of sending such young men and women into harms way and redrafting legislation to ensure military recruiters were treated fairly on campus i cant take th...