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Anonymous Push Polls: Coming Soon to a Phone Near You?

Luis Toro | Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Law, Colorado, Federal Court, Longmont, Campaign Finance, Push Polls, Denver, Longmont Election Committee, Western Tradition Partnership, Free Speech, First Amendment, Public Opinion Polling, Denver News

What kinds of polls are actually campaign advertisements? A Colorado court is set to rule on the answer.

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Closing GITMO: Is This the Department of Justice's Detention Model?

William Fisher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Court, Guantanamo Trials, Gitmo Detainees, Prison Inmates, SAMs, Syed Hashmi Solitary Confinement, Special Administrative Measures, Terror-Related Crimes, Post 9/11, Department of Justice, Terror Suspects, Politics News

The government is already imprisoning, in the U.S., American citizens awaiting trial on terror-related charges, under what their supporters describe as draconian conditions.

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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Guantánamo Detainees in U.S. Federal Courts

David Laufman | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Federal Court, Al Queda, Criminal Justice System, Obama Guantanamo, Criminal Trial, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

As the Obama Administration grapples with resolving the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo, one option which must be preserved is the criminal prosecution of detainees in U.S. federal courts.

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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