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White House Denies Indefinite Detention Order

AFP | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

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The White House dismissed reports that it has drafted an executive order allowing indefinite detention in the United States of some of the top terror...

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Portugal Will Accept "2 Or 3" Guantanamo Detainees

MSNBC | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

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Portugal will accept "two or three" prisoners for resettlement from the U.S. detention camp of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, state news agency Lusa quoted F...

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Palau Uighurs Face Culture Shock

AP | TOMOKO A. HOSAKA and WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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KOROR, Palau — They came from a land of scorching deserts, snowcapped mountains, camels and mosques. Now after several miserable years imprisone...

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Obama Gives Up On Bringing Released Gitmo Inmates To U.S.

Washington Post | Peter Finn and Sandhya Somashekhar | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States,...

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Bill Allows Obama To Try Gitmo Detainees In US Courts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — After a flare-up over controversial detainee abuse photos, House-Senate negotiators sealed agreement on a crucial war-funding bill ...

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"Grassroots" Group Opposing Terrorism Trials In VA Has Ties To GOP Firm

The Washington Independant | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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As a substantial portion of about 250 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay's prison facility prepare to face trial in the United States, the alarm t...

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Congressional Dems Will Let Gitmo Detainees In US For Trial: Reuters

Reuters | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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In a partial reprieve for President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats plan to allow detainees held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to ...

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Gitmo Detainees: Records Document "Shocking" Weight Loss

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

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When most people talk about the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the focus is usually on what a beauty queen-endorsed demi-paradise it is. Or the ...

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Omar Khadr: Canadian Guantanamo Detainee Wants To Dismiss Lawyers

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A Canadian detainee rejected his U.S. military attorneys Monday at the first session of the Guantanamo war cri...

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Gen. Petraeus: US Violated Geneva Convention

Crooks And Liars | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Gen. Petraeus joined FOX News and Martha MacCallum today and gave a blockbuster interview, but not one Fox expected. Once again, he called for the res...

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Not in My Backyard: Fear of the Guantánamo Legion of Doom

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy

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Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.

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Cheney, the CIA and Torture: Asking the Wrong Questions

Eric L. Lewis | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Cheney wants to take what is a stark legal and moral issue and turn it into yet another Washington "some argue this; some argue that" controversy, a clever bureaucratic maneuver.

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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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Become a Guantanamo Detainee - In Second Life

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment

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A recent conference showcased new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.

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Coming This Summer: Gitmo by the Dozen!

Spencer Green | Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy

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(INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - BENJAMIN SONNEE (Matthew McConaughey) is in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation, which ends with the image of a giant "Monopoly Man" crushing poor people; everyone in the room applauds, Benjamin takes off his shirt.)

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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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FBI Director Mueller Raises Concerns About Gitmo Detainee Release In US

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States could pose a num...

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Obama's Detainee Definition Revised By Court

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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A federal judge has ruled that the Obama administration cannot use a captured person's "substantial support" for the Taliban or al Qaeda as a reason t...

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Obama Weighs Indefinite Detention Of Terror Suspects On U.S. Soil

Wall Street Journal | EVAN PEREZ | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil -- indefinitely and without trial -- as part of a...

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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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Guantanamo Detainee Files Could Be Destroyed By Government

Pro Publica | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-know...

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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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Britain Tried Recruiting Gitmo Detainees By Promising Protection From American Captors

The Independent | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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MI5 secretly tried to hire British men held in Guantanamo Bay and other US prison camps by promising to protect them from their American captors and h...

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Pelosi, Obey Emphasize Agreement With Obama On Gitmo

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and appropriations committee chair David Obey (D-Wisc.) are in full agreement regarding the clo...

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Obama's Uighur Plan Poses Political Problems

Inter Press Service | William Fisher | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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NEW YORK, May 4 (IPS) - The probability that some Guantanamo detainees will soon be released into the U.S. will place the administration of Preside...

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