In December 2012, Dr Meera Sachdeva was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to repay nearly USD 8.2 million for fraud at a former Mississippi cancer centre she ran

Biden commuted the prison sentence of Meera Sachdeva, a cancer doctor who gave diluted chemo drugs to patients as part of an $8 million Medicare fraud.

Also re-used old needles, leading to a lawsuit by a patient who claimed he contracted HIV.

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    Ah, yes, the “helpless executive” bullshit excuse for cowardice. Obama did not need to throw it to Congress by trying to relocate detainees to the US, they shouldn’t be detained in the first place and the gov has nothing on them except Bush administration gibberish that they know can’t hold up in a court of law. As commander-in-chief both he and Biden always had the power to order them released and repatriated and order their State Department to work on their repatriation with their nations of origin. That does not require any input whatsoever from Congress and not even the judiciary could stop it, it falls under broad commander-in-chief authority.

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        Oh yeah, I’ve been through all the classified intel that even the detainees were not allowed to know which definitely 100% proves they’re guilty and don’t need a fair trial. Next time I meet with Ould Slahi I’ll ask him how come he never simply requested the classified intel about him be made public so that people like you would stop making excuses for his kidnapping and torture.

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          people like you would stop making excuses for his kidnapping and torture.

          What a douche bag-- shoving tons of words in my mouth. I don’t actually know a fucking thing about your opinion except you think all the prisoners are innocent and give zero fucks if you’re wrong. Looks like that’s all I’ll ever know 👋

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            Yeah, they are innocent until proven guilty in a proper court adhering to basic standards of law, and the “consequences” of releasing geriatrics kidnapped and locked in a torture camp on the other side of the world for the past couple of decades are hypothetical gibberish that has been considered and duly disregarded.

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              Raging against an actual hypothetical viewpoint, is kind of useless. You know nothing about my opinion and you won’t know anything

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        It doesn’t matter. Trump released thousands of terrorists. It literally doesn’t matter anymore.