Impeach Obama Over Gitmo Release: The Hypocrisy Of Sen. Lindsey Graham by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | June 5, 2014
Graham's interpretation of the Constitution is highly political President Barack Obama has violated the Constitution on numerous occasions. Obamacare, executive orders, cybersecurity, NSA surveillance, backdoor legalization of illegal aliens, the Pakistan drone war and the invasion of Libya are all serious constitutional violations. On Wednesday South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham warned that he and his fellow lawmakers will call for Obama to be impeached if the president releases more detainees from Guantánamo Bay without congressional approval. Article II, Section IV of the Constitution provides Congress with the vehicle to impeach a president for high crimes and misdemeanors. “It’s going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of Gitmo now without a huge backlash,” Graham said. “There will be people on our side calling for his impeachment if he did that.” Lindsey Graham’s interpretation of the Constitution is highly political. In 2010 he opposed states’ right by stating Arizona’s immigration law was unconstitutional. He has supported the unconstitutional wars in Iraq and Libya. Graham and Republicans in Congress insist Obama broke the law by releasing the Taliban detainees from the Guantánamo facility in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The law in question is the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014 signed by Obama. In 2006 the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that the military commissions system established by Bush and his neocons was unfair and illegal.
“The Supreme Court has made clear that the executive branch does not have a blank check in the war on terror and may not run roughshod over the nation’s legal system. This decision moves us one step closer to stopping the abuse of power that has become the hallmark of this White House. Now that the Supreme Court has issued its decision, the president should make good on his promise and close Guantánamo,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. Outrage by Graham and partisan Republicans is highly selective. They did not call for the impeachment of Obama after the invasion of Libya. The action, ultimately resulting in the death of 30,000 Libyans, was clearly unconstitutional and violated international law. Not all Republicans, however, signed on to the illegal war. In September, 2013, North Carolina Republican Walter Jones told Alex Jones Obama should face impeachment “for bypassing the Constitution and bypassing Congress to bomb another country.” Jones said if the United States intervened directly in Syria without congressional approval, Obama would face multiple articles of impeachment. Graham fully supported the unconstitutional and illegal invasion of Libya and suggested sending U.S. ground troops. “Let’s get in on the ground. There is a lot of money to be made in the future in Libya. Lot of oil to be produced. Let’s get on the ground and help the Libyan people establish a democracy and a functioning economy based on free market principles,” he told Fox News in October, 2011. Last September he said if the administration did not engage in an unconstitutional invasion of Syria, Iran would nuke the United States. Graham and his fellow Republicans are fully vested in the war on terrorism. Releasing Taliban government officials from illegal detainment in a camp situated on foreign territory (Cuba has protested against the presence of U.S. troops on its soil since 1959) is an important element of a war on terror promised to last indefinitely.
Graham Warns Of Republican Impeachment Push Over Gitmo By Alexander Bolton - 06/04/14 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Wednesday that Republican lawmakers would call for President Obama’s impeachment if he released more prisoners from Guantanamo Bay without congressional approval. Republicans worry Obama may try to shut down the prison camp unilaterally after congressional opposition has repeatedly stymied efforts to pass legislation to close it. “It’s going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of Gitmo now without a huge backlash,” Graham said. “There will be people on our side calling for his impeachment if he did that.” Graham served as a House prosecutor during former President Clinton’s 1998 impeachment trial. Congress tried to build in a safeguard against Obama making unilateral decisions on releasing terrorist detainees by including language in the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the administration to alert Congress of such moves at least 30 days in advance. Obama did not follow that law when he swapped five senior Taliban commanders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Sen. Carl Levin (Mich.), the Democratic chairman of the Armed Services panel, said Obama had a plausible legal argument for ignoring the law. “The White House did not comply with the requirement of the 30-day provision. However, the White House said it had power under Article II of the Constitution to do what it did,” Levin said. “I’m not a court that’s going to decide whether or not under Article II the commander in chief has the power to
move this quickly even though Congress said you’ve got to give 30 days notice.” Levin said Congress was notified that Obama might not follow the NDAA’s requirement in a signing statement attached to the law. “The executive branch must have the flexibility, among other things, to act swiftly in conducting negotiations with foreign countries regarding the circumstances of detainee transfers,” Obama asserted in his Dec. 26 statement. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday applauded Obama’s decision to release five Taliban leaders because it would hasten the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. “My own personal opinion, Guantanamo has been there far too long, and I think that we should get them out of there as quickly as we can,” he said. Reid noted that Democrats have tried to pass legislation to close the prison camp and transfer the detainees to the United States to face criminal trials but have been “held up from doing so by Republicans.” “So I'm glad to get of these five people, send them back to Qatar, and I think the arrangements made there are, as far as I understand, what's been explained to me, adequate,” he said the Taliban militants released over the weekend. The former detainees must spend at least a year in Qatar, which helped mediate the exchange, under the terms of the deal. Graham, a member of the Armed Services Committee who face a contested primary next week, said he has added language to the pending defense authorization bill that would require an up-or-down vote in Congress to approve the closure of Guantanamo. The bill also includes a provision barring the administration from transferring detainees to Yemen, he noted. White House and Pentagon officials held a classified briefing for senators on Wednesday night, but it did not satisfy skeptics. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) -- member of the Senate Armed Services VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQAynTFfw5I Rep. Walter Jones Ready to File Articles of Impeachment VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzViubtviU Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo VIDEO BELOW http://media.thehill.com/services/player/bcpid2764968420001?
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