Another "I Told You So" Moment

All during the election, everytime I talked to an Obama supporter who said that he was going to change all of the Bush regime war policies, I just kept saying "wait until President Obama starts getting those Presidential Daily Briefs and then we will see." Well again.......

The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight. In a court filing, the Justice Department also asked District Judge John D. Bates not to proceed with the habeas-corpus cases of three detainees at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Judge Bates ruled last week that the three — each of whom says he was seized outside of Afghanistan — could challenge their detention in court.

Some of the President's supporters on the left were not pleased with this announcement.

Tina Foster, the executive director of the International Justice Network, which is representing the detainees, condemned the decision in a statement.

“Though he has made many promises regarding the need for our country to rejoin the world community of nations, by filing this appeal, President Obama has taken on the defense of one of the Bush administration’s unlawful policies founded on nothing more than the idea that might makes right,” she said.

President Obama is right here - as was President Bush. Non-US citizens who are arrested outside of the US are simply not guaranteed US citizens rights. I don't care how much you stomp your feet and hold your breath it is simply not so. President Obama, like President Bush before him, knows that and is acting appropriately.