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Originally Posted by Tex
You agreed with BlueK's self-named radical proposition that Gitmo was created for the primary purpose of expanding executive power.
How many citizens are in Gitmo? For that matter, how many American citizens have been indefinitely detained at all?
Ridiculous hyperbole, for both Bush and Carter.
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Who is worse than Bush and Carter?
But let's not take anything Bush said at face value. It was not created for the purpose of protecting the US, it was created to evade the protections of US law. It was a careful plan.
And he didn't do it to expand executive power, he did in disregard of whether it increased executive power and whether it abridged the civil liberties of the US.
In fact, his lawyers knew it was a problem and carefully sought to create plausible deniability, because Bush wanted to do, what he wanted to do.