GITMO Horrors.
Speaking Sunday 29 Jess Bravin, WSJ, re the sudden exit of the White House GITMO op Phillip Carter who, at 34, has suddenly decided to "spend more time with his family" rather than continue on the GITMO hard cases. Carter appears to have been fired just weeks after White House Counsel Greg Craig was fired. A fair explanation for these serial departures is the continuing turmoil about the Attorney General Eric Holder decision to put KSM and four cronies on federal trial in New York. Now we learn (again) that two of the five tagged for a New York federal court are questionably incompetent -- and that some part of their conditions may be explained by the imagined horrors of their imprisonment since 2002. More sophisticated blame-shifting to follow. Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Mawsawi may be most visibly incompetent. Bravin remarks drily, "Now it is unconstitutional to put anyone on trial who is mentally incapable of assisting in his defense...
"...if either of these defendants is found incompetent... they will be placed in a mental facility until they are competent..." The GITMO circus is coming to town, and at least two of the mass-murders may be displayed as victims, freaks, permanent wards of the state.
'Official’ departures from this current administration are likely not ‘departures’ as we have come to expect them. Whereas in previous administrations, highly publicized departures were predicated on performance, ethical, criminality or ideological issues and could be regarded as ‘final’, in the Obama administration any announced departure may not necessarily be all that meets the eye. The ghost of Van Jones still haunts the dark corners of the White House along with gossamer Anita Dunn. Of that much you can be sure. Bill Ayers and the Right Reverent Wright also continue to be vital influences. Maybe that was what all the fuss behind Obama’s Blackberry (in the early days) was about?
The difference between this and previous administrations is that in this administration people are dismissed for having been shown to reflect Obama’s own views.
http://peterkoelliker.blogspot.com/
This is by design. Obama needs a circus to draw attention away from his foibles and the agenda he wants to pass, which is opposed by the majority of the American people. Obama has been the master magician. http://the-right-guy.blogspot.com/2009/03/straw-man-and-magician.html
Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Mawsawi may be most visibly incompetent.
'Incompetent' is a strange word. Put a suicide belt on an 'incompetent' or a gun in the hands of an 'incompetent', let him or her kill people, and in some sense, he or she has become 'competent'.