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Close it Right: Guantanamo Must Be Shut Down Quickly and Properly

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Due Process, Aclu, September 11th, Eric Holder, Gitmo, Greg Craig, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

The clock's ticking and it's not looking good. As January 22, 2010 fast approaches, the administration is signaling that it's unlikely to meet its own deadline to close

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

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Bahtiyar Mahnu, Detainees, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Gitmo, Uighur, Uighurs, Due Process, Afghanistan, Mental Illness, Elizabeth Gilson, Palau, China, Habeas Corpus, Video, Arkin, World News

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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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Burma, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, International Law, Democracy, Iran, Due Process, Detainees, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Courts, Political Prisoners, Justice, Asia, Yevgeny Zhovtis, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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Preventive Detention, at What Cost?

Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Preventive Detention, Civil Liberties, War on Terror, Constitution, Guantanamo Detainees, Due Process, Cointelpro, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Whether called "preventive", "indefinite" or "prolonged," prevention detention schemes are essentially lawless, unconstitutional and un-American. At its root, detention without trial threatens democracy.

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate Us for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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Transferring Some Guantanamo Detainees to the U.S. Will Actually Make America Safer

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Closing Guantanamo, National Security, Breaking News, Guantanamo, American Values, Obama, Due Process, Unitary Executive, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Why take the "chance" by bringing additional Guantanamo detainees to our shores? Because it is essential to our national security that we close it down -- and this step is necessary to make that happen.

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Don't "Split the Baby" with National Security Courts

Ginny Sloan | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Guantanamo, Justice, National Security Courts, Terrorism, Ginny Sloan, The Constitution Project, Human Rights, War on Terror, Bush Administration Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Hybrid Courts, Habeus Corpus, Due Process, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Ginny Sloan

Proponents of national security courts claim that these new hybrid courts would eliminate burdensome procedural rules that protect the rights of defendants.

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Jason Linkins

Gingrich Rails At Supreme Court, Obama: 'This Could Cost Us A City'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Guantanamo Detainees, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Newt Gingrich, Due Process, Barack Obama, Politics News

Reacting to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America - who recently affirmed, by 5-4 decision, our Constitutional righ...

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