If I am going to bash his administration for what I think it does wrong, then I have to acknowledge when it rises to the challenge.br /br /Recently, when a Federal judge ordered a Gitmo detainee freed, a href="http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2009/07/time-to-find-out-if-we-are-government.html"I said that now was the time to find out if we were a nation of laws/a, and if the Obama administration would react like Andrew Jackson or follow the law.br /br /a href="http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/thatseemsfair/latimes0266.html"LATimes/a:br /br /blockquotespan style="font-style:italic;"Reporting from Washington — Avoiding a showdown with a federal judge, the Obama administration agreed Wednesday to release from Guantanamo Bay an Afghan prisoner who was captured as a teenager and held nearly seven years for allegedly throwing a grenade at U.S. soldiers.br /br /The government said it would "promptly release" Mohammed Jawad, now 23, and send him to Afghanistan -- but only after it sent a required notification to Congress explaining whether his release would pose a risk to national security. That will take 22 days, the administration said./span/blockquotebr /br /They followed the law. This is a good sign, but only a start.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7893272060787897238-8572005330452235591?l=delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com'//div
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