Flip Flop: Obama Considers Reviving Bush Military Tribunals
Posted in Barack Obama on May 2nd, 2009 by John H – Be the first to commentFox News reports:
The Justice Department acknowledged Saturday that the Obama administration is considering reviving the military commission system that the president criticized in the past for prosecuting terrorism suspects held at a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But the system would likely include changes, particularly ones to afford greater due process to the accused, the Justice Department said in a statement in response to a story by The New York Times.
Following a town hall meeting in northern Virginia on Saturday, GOP leaders seemed to revel in Obama’s apparent change of heart.
“I think that President Obama is learning now that he is in office that a number of the things that he campaigned against and opposed, he was actually wrong on,” former presidential candidate Mitt Romney told FOX News.
Having based his entire presidential campaign on attacking the Bush administration and its policies to distinguish himself as an agent of change, it would appear that Obama’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.