Plan to Shut Gitmo Clearly Illegal
Obama clearly believes that he can close Gitmo and bring the prisoners to the U.S. He will initially ask Congress for permission to do so, but he has indicated that he will make that happen, even if Congress does not give its approval.
President Obama “can try” to go around Congress in his attempt to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, House Speaker Paul Ryan told news conference on Wednesday. “He has no authority to do so,” Ryan added.
Ryan reminded reporters that Congress voted overwhelmingly for the National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a provision saying the president may not move Guantanamo inmates to U.S. soil.
“We are making legal preparations if the president tries to break the law,” Ryan said. “And what boggles my mind, is that the president is contemplating directing the military to knowingly break the law.
“Our law is really clear, and by the way, Democrats wrote this law when they were in the majority, when they ran Congress, which is, these detainees cannot come to American soil.
“So if the president proceeds with knowingly breaking the law and asking the military to break the law, he will be met with fierce bipartisan opposition here in Congress, and we’re taking all legal preparations necessary to meet with that resistance.
“He can’t do it because the law is really clear,” Ryan said.
But the White House on Tuesday refused to rule out executive action:
Spokesman Josh Earnest was asked multiple times if President Obama would use executive action to close Guantanamo.
“The president himself has considered this question,” Earnest told reporters. “And what he has said publicly is that our focus is going to be on working with Congress.”
Earnest said the White House is “not going to take any of the president’s options off the table.”
And he said if Congress would simply give “legitimate consideration” to the president’s plan, “that would make any sort of discussion about the president’s executive actions obsolete. And that’s why we’re going to go ahead and continue to put pressure on Congress to do the right thing.”
Earnest twice refused to give a yes or no answer to questions about whether Obama can still close Guantanamo Bay detention center if Congress fails to approve his plan.
Surprisingly, Attorney General Loretta Lynch suggested that Obama would try to work with Congress on the plan to close Gitmo, and she did not contest the fact the Obama does not have the authority to do that on his own. She also said she was unaware of any plans Obama has for trying close the center without Congressional approval, though she may be surprised at how lawless Obama is when he wants to do something that is contrary to established laws and practices. Or she may just be covering for him until he has a chance to launch an initiative when he realizes that Congress has checked his power.
Obama’s time in office is coming to a close, and so it is likely he will try to implement many of the more difficult (read illegal or unethical) actions he has been unable to do so far. After all, can anyone deny the monarch? We will see, as he seeks to help these Islamic worst of the worst killers and terrorists, to what purpose we cannot tell.
Source: cnsnews.com
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OBAMA BELONGS INSIDE OF GITMO FOR LIFE!!!!!
It should be no secret by now as to what Obama’s intentions are and that is to bring in as many Muslim terrorist he can to kill and destroy the American way of life. It is in his blood because he is a Muslum himself that is what all of them do……that is why he released those prisoners in exchange for the traitor Bergdahl and why he wants to bring in thousands of muslim refugees……..nothing Obama has done has created unity and harmony to our country….he has done everything he can to divide this country……It is beyond any real of imagination that our congress has allowed him to remain in office…….Our congress has failed us and they are the ones that we have representing the people…..why haven’t they done their duty……
Obama belongs in prison with Hillary Clinton. He uses executive orders as if he is a king. He continues to bring Muslim refugees into this country even with the rise of terrorist attracts from one side of the country to the other and wants to bring the gitmo prisoners here for trials. B******t…. He wants to bring them here to give them rigged trials find them not guilty and let them loose here. In Cuba he has little control over what happens and even if he could get rigged trials he would have a tough time bringing them here after. I also wouldn’t put some of this sudden cooperation between libs and republican in the government past the dems trying to hang onto jobs they should have been removed from long ago. It just seems odd all of a sudden they stop kissing his ass and siding with the right thing to do. Somethings rotten and I’m waiting to what surprises are in store. I love my country and the vision the founders had when they started it and when they wrote the constitution they knew what they were doing and the libs are interpreting it to death. IT SAYS WHAT IT MEANS NOT WHAT YOUR 2ND AMMENDMANT KILLING AND OTHER AGENDA WANTS IT TO! Long live USA!