McCain Camp Hits Obama On Guantanamo

The McCain campaign today attacked Obama over statements he made to ABC in an interview yesterday in Flint, Mich., regarding the handling of terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

In a conference call with reporters, McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, along with former CIA director Jim Woolsey and former Navy secretary John Lehman, slammed Obama for, according to them, proposing a "law enforcement approach" to battling terrorism.

Speaking with ABC's Jake Tapper yesterday, Obama answered a question about his support for the recent Supreme Court decision that gave suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay detention center the right to due process. Obama noted the prosecution of those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as an example of the court system working in such cases.

"Once again we have seen that Senator Obama is a perfect manifestation of the September 10 mindset," Scheunemann said. "He brings the attitude, the failures of judgment, the misunderstanding of the nature of our adversaries and the dangers posed by them, to a series of policy positions. This is just his latest statement...in a long line of positions that reveal he does not understand the nature of the enemies we face."

The McCain team claimed that proving the guilt of terror suspects in a court of law was almost impossible, and that the use of law enforcement in handling the 1993 bombing suspects was a "material cause" of the September 11, 2001, attacks because the CIA was not able to see the evidence and case files.

Scheunemann said Obama was "practicing the policy of delusion." Woolsey echoed that, saying: "This is an extremely dangerous and extremely naive approach toward terrorism."

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