"Perpetuating Guantanamo's Travesty": New York Times Entire Editorial Board Again Opines On Failure Of The United States Government Yet To Close The Prison Site Of CIA Torture Of "Detainees" Never Charged Many Still Held Which At Least 38 Retired U.S. Generals And Flag Officers Say Is A "Betrayal Of American Values" And A "Recruiting Poster For Terrorists"

       Saturday, 24 January 2015, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The New York Times entire editorial board in the below linked-to editorial from the 18 January 2015 New York Times Sunday Review opines that it is a "travesty" now the responsibility of the Obama Administration that the United States continues to operate at Guantanamo Bay the United States site of years of the documented imprisonment of a strangely uncertain number of so-called "War On Terror" foreign "detainees". Imagine the absurdity not to mention the consequences for a prison warden in the United States were she or he to report that they were unable to provide the exact number of prisoners they had incarcerated because he or she was unable accurately to count them.
       Moreover the conditions at Guantanamo Bay horrified as "inhumane" even U.S. Bureau of Prisons officials who said they had never seen humans anywhere so "sensory deprived"  when these officials toured the CIA torture "dungeons" of never charged, tried, convicted, nor sentenced "detainees". A great deal of information previously undisclosed just recently was made partially public by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ("SSCI") in its Bush Administration CIA "Torture Report" in the form of its 524-page redacted executive summary public release on 9 December 2014 with the remainder of the over six thousand (6.000) page $40 million Torture Report to date remaining "Classified" .
       The following brief excerpt from the New York Times editorial of last Sunday linked to in full directly below as quoted here documents prior attempts at action on Guantanamo Bay by Senator John McCain (himself revered throughout this Country for his service which included years himself spent as a prisoner of war in enemy captivity during the Vietnam War - or "Conflict" in official DOD documents - infuriating his North Vietnamese captors upon refusing even to be released when it was not yet his "turn") here speaking on the United States Senate floor:

In November 2013, Mr. McCain, backing a failed initiative that would have authorized transferring some Guantánamo detainees to the United States,read out loud on the Senate floor a letter from 38 retired generals and flag officers who supported shutting the facility.

“Guantánamo is a betrayal of American values,” the former military officers wrote. “The prison is a symbol of torture and justice delayed. More than a decade after it opened, Guantánamo remains a recruiting poster for terrorists, which makes us all less safe.” 

       In the letter Senator John McCain as can be seen read that 38 retired United States generals and flag officers called the continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay imprisonment and CIA "detainee" torture site "a betrayal of American values" and "a recruiting poster for terrorists, which makes us all less safe". This result is antithetical to what anyone except a terrorist would want. That is because to the extent there is a "War On Terror" Guantanamo's continued existence and operation contrary to American values stands as a living monument to the wrong side winning by appearing to all the world to have forced the United States to sacrifice its must fundamental values in order to save them. Not only that but as the former military officers state rather than making all Americans more secure the continuing operation of Guantanamo instead creates a more dangerous situation by spurring recruitment of terrorists "which makes us all less safe".
       It is a most scathing indictment of Guantanamo Bay that its historical and continued operation as a United States "detention facility" fully documented already as contrary to all accepted United States principles of jurisprudence and totally at odds with the human rights of all persons as well as the fundamental values informing the United States Constitution but moreover has been and still is wrongly "justified" as necessary to preserve and protect the United States and all American values. It however in fact while allegedly doing so in reality has all along been doing exactly the opposite. Guantanamo has come to represent before all the world community living proof of the abandonment of those very same American values that it would purport to preserve and protect.
       This broadcasts completely the wrong message to all lovers and defenders of ordered and defined liberty and those who love this Country for all that for which it stands surely none more so than the American people themselves that the enduring values of the Unites States which have seen this great Nation all the way from the American Revolution of the 18th Century up through the darkest times of the 20th Century no longer are sufficient but instead must be tossed aside without debate mush less Constitutional amendment in times of perceived crisis. Meanwhile the 21st Century seems in just its first fifteen years to the present to have consisted ceaselessly of one never constitutionally declared so-called "War" to the next.

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Disgusted With Obama War Crimes Ambassador-At-Large Stephen J. Rapp Stepping Down Due To Obama Absolute Failure To Respond To Human Rights Abuses Most Recently With Silence About Crimes Against Humanity Torture Committed Under Bush Administration And By Obama's Own CIA Officials All Must Be Prosecuted Under United States And International Law

       Thursday, 15 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Obama's own Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes Stephen J. Rapp is stepping down in disgust with President Obama's long history of failures to confront human rights abuses including refusing to sign international treaties on human rights abuses, failing to close Guantanamo Bay despite the blatant unconstitutionality of Obama's executive branch holding human beings indefinitely without charges, torturing and even killing them at will in now in well-documented reports and never allowing them their day in court whether open federal court, FISA or military court.
       The elephant standing in the corner that President Obama steadfastly refuses to address is that this country is in a time of Constitutional crisis. The actions of this Administration at this time may well determine the future course of this country. Should these criminals from the Bush Administration as well as Obama's own CIA be allowed to practice business as usual in the face of disclosures which have rocked the world while here in the U.S. these criminals to date have been allowed publicly to display open defiance and blatantly assert they again would commit acts of torture "in a minute" according to Dick Cheney and displaying further open defiance such as CIA Director John Brennan Obama's own former Anti-Terrorism Adviser known in the White House as the "Assassination Czar" to President Obama presumably as the President's very own personal adviser as ro what persons including American citizens to kill with drone strikes and other persons unfortunate enough to be "of interest" (or in their physical proximity) to Brennan's "lethal surveillance teams".
       President Obama cannot indefinitely publicly ignore disclosures which go to the very foundational principles of the United States Constitution as he well knows having been a professor of Constitutional Law himself and quite obviously a genius. Is he to leave beleaguered Josh Earnest indefinitely to try to deflect press inquiries with such hollow statements as "President Obama supports John Brennan". The CIA is not a fourth branch of government and must not be treated as such just as feared by many wise persons at the time of its formation in the aftermath of the Office of Strategic Services.
       President Obama these are the times that try men's souls so where would you like yours to go? We are speaking of the future of this country President Obama. Perhaps you have had too many people whispering in your ear who do not realize what you know in your heart and mind to be true. When in doubt go always with the United States Constitution. Without it we are living in a place not worth being and under a government that being no longer by the people must cease to exist.
       For interested/concerned readers link below to the foreignpolicy.com article on the resignation in disgust of President Obama's Ambassador At Large For War Crimes Stephen J. Rapp and an overview of the Obama Administration's abysmal record to date on human rights culminating in this Country's own Constitutional crisis painstakingly documented by Senator Feinstein and the Senate Intelligence Committee and thanks to the incredibly dedicated work of their staff who overcame every roadblock the CIA tried to throw up in their way bringing us to the Constitutional crisis which is occurring right now for those who may not yet have noticed. Morphine addict alcoholic Senator Joseph McCarthy may have ruined unforgivingly people's careers but so far as the Ninth Amendment knows he did not detain them indefinitely without charges torture and kill them in secrecy without ever allowing them their day in court. Will that be your legacy, President Obama?

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