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Ron Paul Slams GOP Senator On House Floor Over Detention Of American Citizens (VIDEO)

Mollie Reilly | Posted 01.18.2012

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On Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) urged his congressional colleagues to support legislation that would repeal a clause ...

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Constitution Day: Is the Constitution on Life Support?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: SWAT Team, Supreme Court, Patriot Act, Bill of Rights, Enemy Combatants, Constitution, Jose Padilla, Habeas Corpus, Education News

For all intents and purposes, the Constitution is on life support and has been for some time now. Those responsible for its demise are none other tha...

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McCain Dethrones the Rule of Law

Bruce Fein | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Alexander Hamilton, Congress, President Obama, Federal Reserve, James Madison, UN Security Council, U.S. Constitution, Pentagon Budget, Common Sense, Robert Jackson, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, John Bassett Moore, Constitution, Predator Drones, War Powers Resolution, Pentagon, John McCain, Thomas Paine, Libya War, State Secrets, Thomas Jefferson, James Wilson, Democrats, U.S. Supreme Court, Military Commissions, Patriot Act, Department of Treasury, U.S. Senate, War Powers Act, Fisa, Republicans, Politics News

John McCain's latest war gospel hangs an alarming tale. The rule of law has been dethroned and the president has been endowed with absolute power as the American Empire has eclipsed the American Republic.

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My Debate with Marc Thiessen

David Frakt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fundamental difference between people like Marc Thiessen and General Hayden and "terrorist sympathizers" like myself is that they seem to feel that detaining dozens of innocent people potentially for decades is acceptable.

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AWFUL: MMA Fighter Dies After Brutal Debut Match

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A mixed martial arts fighter has died from brain injuries in his professional debut. The Aiken County coroner said Monday that...

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Senator Lieberman's Latest Constitutional Buffoonery

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 05.25.2011

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In response to supposed legal restrictions on the interrogation of U.S. citizen and suspected Times Square SUV bomber Faisal Shahzad, Senator Lieberma...

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Did The Bush Administration Experiment On Detainees?

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the course of trying to prove that its "enhanced" interrogation program was legal, the Bush administration may have broken the law, according to a ...

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Most Guantanamo Bay Detainees Were Low-Level Fighters, Report Confirms

New York Times | Charlie Savage | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there is no evidence...

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Guantanamo Death Lawsuit Thrown Out Of Court

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A judge has dealt a setback to the families of two Guantanamo Bay detainees in a lawsuit that alleges former Defense Secretary Dona...

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Eric Holder Responds To Cheney, Giuliani, And Defends 9/11 Civilian Trials

Posted 05.25.2011

On January 11th, a few weeks before his plans for a trial at Foley Square fell apart, Holder flew to Boston, to preside over the installation of a new...

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9/11 Trial: White House Orders Justice Department To Look For Other Places For 9/11 Trial

New York Daily News | By Kenneth R. Bazinet and Samuel Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the ...

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Black Eye Won't Heal If Gitmo Stays

Jane Harman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11 Trials, Military Tribunals, Enemy Combatants, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ksm, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Raul Castro, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

Why not keep Gitmo open and send the latest suspected terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, there? Doing so would not evade the reach of law, save money or remove the stain Gitmo has caused.

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Thomson Prison Will Likely Be Next Stop For Gitmo Detainees, Says Obama Administration

Washington Post | Peter Slevin and Peter Finn | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO -- Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will p...

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Judge Orders Release from Guantanamo of Unwilling Yemeni Recruit

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

The administration's reluctance to release Yemenis is based on the fear that detainees who were actually harmless in 2002 may have since actually been radicalized by their stay at Guantanamo.

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Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror capti...

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Supreme Court Rules Against ACLU In Case Of Detainee Abuse Photos

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their ...

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"Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Jordan, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Guantanamo Detainees, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Judge Thomas Hogan, Hassan Bin Attash, World News, Osama Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus, Al Qaeda, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Dark Prison, The Guantanamo Files, Musa'ab Al-Madhwani, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

Al-Madhwani joins eight other prisoners in a legal netherworld, no longer regarded as "enemy combatants" by the administration, but still detained indefinitely as though they were.

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"Enemy Combatant" Is an Enemy to Justice

Adam Blickstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans who clamor for Abdulmutallab to be named an "enemy combatant" want him to enter a flawed system that even the Bush administration couldn't successfully use and that hasn't been utilized since 2003.

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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...

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Uighur Brothers: Detainee Declines Offer To Leave Guantanamo Out Of Loyalty To Ailing Brother (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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After eight years of detention, at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee declined an offer to resettle to the Pacific Island of Palau, according to The Wa...

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Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, US Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War on Terror, World, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Review Task Force, Farouq Saif, Muhammed Khan Tumani, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fbi, Camp X-Ray, FBI Guantanamo, US Congress, Taliban, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Politics News, Kandahar, Enemy Combatants, Abdul Nasir Al-Tumani, Moammar Dokhan, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Portugal Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed Al-Tumani, The Guantanamo Files, Portugal, Syria, Camp Delta, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

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U.S. Identifies Guantanamo Prisoner Released To Portugal

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo inmate who said the prison's harsh conditions drove him to attempt suicide has been sent to Portugal, the U...

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As Judge Orders Release of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.

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