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Sam Stein

Graham: Rahm Doesn't Want Detainee Photos Released

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Graham Rahm, Rahm Emanuel, Detainee Photos, Graham Detainee Photos, Lindsey Graham, Obama White House, Detainees, Politics News

Senator Lindsey Graham said on Wednesday, that the White House had assured him that the president was still committed to preventing the release of pho...

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No Proof Detainee Photos Led to Military Deaths

CQ Politics | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee Abuse, Detainee Photos, Detainees, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

The U.S. government's case for embargoing the release of photographs said to depict abuse of detainees rests largely on a questionable claim that disc...

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Obama, Europe's New Counter-Terrorism Plans Would Make Another Guantanamo 'Impossible'

The Guardian | Ian Traynor | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: European Ministries, Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism, Detention Camps, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Proposals, Obama, Extraordinary Rendition, Obama Administration, Detainees, World News

European governments and the Obama administration today outlined aims for a new joint regime for combating terrorism. The proposals are based on comm...

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Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

ZP Heller | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moveon, Tom Hayden, Abuse, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Matthew Alexander, Iraq, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News
ZP Heller

More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.

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National Security vs. Our Values: "The Toughest Issue We Will Face"

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Protecting Our Security and Our Values, Obama Guantanamo, Prosecuting Detainees, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Detainees, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

What should we do with "detainees at Guantanamo who cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to the American people"? This question cuts to the very heart of the concept of preventive detention.

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Gitmo Detainees Transferred to 'Big Brother'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Upfronts, Radio City Music Hall, Andy Borowitz, Les Moonves, Detention Camp, Senate Democrats, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Reality Shows, Nbc, Harry Reid, The Office, Cbs, Big Brother, Detainees, Gitmo Detainees Moved, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

The deal drew praise from Senate Democrats, who had earlier blocked the closing of the detention camp, and from CBS executives, who had been desperately searching for something to spice up their fall schedule.

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US Can Hold Gitmo Detainees Indefinitely, Judge Says

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge says the United States can continue to hold some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely without any charges. U.S...

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Torture Commission: A Gift to the Republican Right?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John McCain, Cia, Terrorism, President Obama, Truth Commission, 9/11, Iraq, Congress, Detainees, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Education, Human Rights, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboarding, Neo-Conservatives, Health Care, Republicans, Torture, Gop, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

It is a bitter pill to swallow that those most responsible for the terrible abuses of the past decade are those who are most likely to benefit from an investigation into the truth.

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Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Gitmo Cases

ProPublica | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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ProPublica

A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a Bush-era federal court order.

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Torture Revelations Will Leave the Left Frustrated

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, President Obama, Red Cross, Geneva Convention, Afghanistan War, Abu Zubaydah, Cheney, Status of Forces Agreements, Judge Bybee, Congress, Rumsfeld, Sen. John McCain, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Bush, Iraq War, Pows, Michael Hayden, George Washington, Ali Soufani, Robert Mueller, Dennis Blair, Fbi, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.

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Cheney Kept File Marked 'Detainees'

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Detainees File, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waterboarding, Vice President Cheney, Torture, Detainees, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Marlene H. Phillips

Dick Cheney wants a few reports released. The former Vice President, a man so secretive that while serving as Vice President he had his home remove...

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A Reasonable Observer's Response to the Torture Memos

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left Wing, Guantanamo Detainees, Sam Stein, Detainee Abuse, Right Wing, Waterboarding, Dietary Restrictions, Obama Tortue Decision, Torture Memos, Barack Obama, Detainees, Torture, Bush Torture Memos, Politics News
Martha St Jean

The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?

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Ryan Grim

Pelosi: Bush Administration Never Briefed Congress On Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboarding, Torture, Detainees, Politics News

The Bush administration did not inform Congress that it had waterboarded detainees in classified briefings, after the agency had already done so, Hous...

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Rumsfeld on Detainees: "I Stand for 8-10 Hours a Day. Why is Standing Limited to 4 Hours?"

Murray Waas | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Murray Waas, Detainees, Politics News
Murray Waas

If Rumsfeld had any other thoughts at that historic moment in 2002, thus far, that single one is the only known to have been recorded for posterity.

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"Kettling": Another "Special Relationship" Between the US and UK

Charles Shaw | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Police, Protest, RNC 2004, Activism, Civil Rights, g20, Republican National Convention, Detainees, Detained, Arrested, Politics News
Charles Shaw

The policy of mass arresting and detaining protesters was deliberate and premeditated. The intention was to disrupt, discourage, and, ultimately, disperse the protest presence from the streets by creating a climate of fear.

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Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn't Torture If a Doctor Is There

Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Doctors, Detainees, War on Terror, Cia, Medicine, Psychologists, CIA Interrogations, Interrogation, Nuremberg Code, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News
Sheri Fink

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Legalize the Undocumented, Help Fix the Economy Immigration NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration NewsLadder, Immigration Reform, Economic Recovery, Sanctuary Ordinances, Hispanic Rights, Economy, Anti-Immigrant Groups, Newsladder, Janet MurguíA, Deportation, Undocumented, Morgan Carroll, Detainees, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The dialogue on immigration has, historically, been contentious and cyclical. There are times when hysteria peaks, an...

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Jason Linkins

Colbert Torches Obama On Bagram Decision (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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While he only dedicated the first two minutes of his show to the issue, Stephen Colbert's mini-segment on President Barack Obama's decision to preserv...

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Obama Admin. On Detention Policy: "What He Said"

ProPublica | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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ProPublica

In a court filing Friday, President Obama's lawyers declared that the new policy on detention is the same as Bush's.

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Disappeared in the Name of National Security

Mohamed Farag Bashmilah | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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Mohamed Farag Bashmilah

From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world.

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Pentagon Keeps Mum on Who's At Bagram

ProPublica | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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ProPublica

An untold portion of the 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan were captured outside the country while engaged in peaceful activities and imprisoned alongside Afghan warriors.

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Good Riddance Gitmo!

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Patricia DeGennaro

Stuff? Is that what waterboarding is? Just stuff? How about putting hoods over people's heads and making them pile on each other naked like they did at Abu Ghraib? Is that also just stuff?

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US Judge Orders Release Of 21-Year-Old Gitmo Detainee

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the military to release one of its first Guantanamo Bay detainees, a 21-year-old man who has b...

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More Lies from Vice President Cheney

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

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Ilan Goldenberg

The scope of absurd statements and flat out debunked assertions in Vice President Cheney's ABC interview was pretty shocking.

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US: Iraq Detainee Dies In US Custody

AP | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prisonner Abuse, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Detainees, Politics News

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says a detainee has died of an apparent heart attack while in custody at a U.S. detention facility in Baghdad. Mond...

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