Obama's Secret Meeting - Torture Controversy!!!

WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a preventive detention system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.

The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny national security matters, including his promise to close the detention center at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Human rights advocates are growing deeply uneasy with Mr. Obamas stance on these issues, especially his recent move to block the release of photographs showing abuse of detainees, and his announcement that he is willing to try terrorism suspects in military commissions — a concept he criticized bitterly as a presidential candidate.

The two participants, outsiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was intended to be off the record, said they left the meeting dismayed.

They said Mr. Obama told them he was thinking about the long game — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents. He raised the issue of preventive detention himself, but made clear that he had not made a decision on it. Several senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders accounts.

He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we cant charge and detain, one participant said. Weve known this is on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.

The other participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held at Guantánamo Bay, but rather for those captured in the future, in settings other than a legitimate battlefield like Afghanistan. The issue is, the participant said, What are the options left open to a future president?

Mr. Obama did not specify how he intended to deal with Guantánamo detainees who posed a threat and could not be tried, nor did he share the contents of Thursdays speech, the participants said.

He will deliver the speech at a site laden with symbolism — the National Archives, home to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Across town, his biggest Republican critic, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will deliver a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.

Mr. Cheney and other hawkish critics have sought to portray Mr. Obama as weak on terror, and their argument seems to be catching on with the public. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats, in a clear rebuke to the White House, blocked the $80 million Mr. Obama had requested in financing to close the Guantánamo prison.

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[Hendo1974]

NWO Puppet=Obama the FAKE! Worse than Bush, at least Bush was a retard!

[NufffRespect]

Nice one man!

[DoItYourSelf12100]

Put a guy with a black face very large and in the center. Be very scared white people. The news is hilarious.

[DoItYourSelf12100]

Check out the smiles that Isikoff gives off before speacking. He knows he is about the lie. Rachel:: "s how did you get this information without reporting?" Isikoff: " we own America, you know we employ you" Go Jews! Then from there blah, blah, blah. No reporting at all.

[85Tourist]

My prediction, Rahm Emanuel will become mayor of Chicago. Once Mayor he will work with Obama to re-open llinois Prison. Prison will be used for terrorists from overseas. Be watchful of this.... This will be a mind conrol operation and also to be used for domestic terrorists, IE patriots and anyone who follows the constitution.

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@85Tourist Comments do not approved if they do like what you are saying. Usually it is if you are telling the truth. Obama is a crooked attorney engaged in fraud against me. Let us see if this simple fact will be published. I have been tortured in the United States.

Honey Siegal

[TrEfLiPz]

@potmankushking1 every president is, the whole "black president" is a complete diversion to whats really going on in the U.S.

[85Tourist]

Comment Pending Approval?

[potmankushking1]

president obama is controled by the elite bankers and corporations

[o0lBobl0o]

MSNBC the propaganda network

[marcabane]

who's reading the news? he or she

[ThoughCriminal912]

obama a zionist puppet oh yeah