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Gitmo Closing

Obama: Guantanamo Won't Close By January Deadline

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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BEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January...

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Executing Gitmo Detainees Will Endanger America, Report Says

Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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The Center For American Progress, a public policy think-tank based in D.C., has released a report that investigates the implications of the closure of...

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Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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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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Guantanamo Might Not Close By January: AP

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged for the first time Friday that it might not be able to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Ba...

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Obama Still On Track To Close Gitmo By January

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early...

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Obama: Don't Stop at Gitmo

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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According to the New York Times, more than 1 in 10 of immigrant fatalities that have taken place in detention over the past six years, has gone unreported, and has been "overlooked."

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Obama Aide Raises Doubt About Gitmo Closing Deadline

Wall Street Journal | SIOBHAN GORMAN and EVAN PEREZ | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration's counterterrorism chief appeared to provide the first indication the administration may not make its January deadline for cl...

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Guantanamo Detainees Protested Over Strip Searches, Humiliation

Miami Herald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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For two weeks in June, two dozen war-on-terror captives staged a sit-in at an exercise yard in a maximum-security prison camp -- refusing to budge fro...

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1 In 7 Guantanamo Detainees Freed Return To Terrorism: Pentagon

New York Times | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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An unreleased Pentagon report provides new details concluding that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the prison ...

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Jon Stewart Mocks The Nonsensical Aversion To Closing Guantanamo Bay (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

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Previously, on Eat The Press, I had taken great pains to mock many of the inane arguments for why it is nonsensical to be told by the grown-ups who pr...

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GOP's Anti-Guantanamo Scare Campaign Parodied (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

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As noted earlier, the GOP has put forward an excellent new measure, the Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act -- also known as the Fluffy Bunnies Forever...

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GOP Promotes 'Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act' To Prevent Gitmo Closure

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

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As reported by Sam Stein, the new and exciting idea from your House GOP is a bill called the Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act, which is SUBLIME. At...

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Guantanamo Commander: Prison Won't Close Soon

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Guantanamo's commander believes that the prison on this base won't close anytime soon after President-elect Ba...

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