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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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Jason Linkins

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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Ryan Grim

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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US Won't Release 50-100 Gitmo Detainees: Gates

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Federal authorities began what will be hotly contested discussions this week on where in the U.S. to send Guantanamo detainees who ...

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Some Guantanamo Detainees Going To Europe: Official

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

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PRAGUE — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asked European officials Tuesday to accept some freed Guantanamo Bay detainees, and one government of...

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Hardin, Montana: Guantanamo Jail Of The Future?

Billings Gazette | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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"Economic development officials in Hardin are looking at the soon-to-close detention facility in Guantanamo Bay as a possible fix for the jail sitting...

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Miss Universe Gitmo Photos Emerge

Miami Herald | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

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Guantánamo's prison camps commander said Thursday he would continue to allow celebrity visits despite a simmering controversy over a visit last month...

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What's in a Name? In this Case, Not Much

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

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Elizabeth Goitein

The real story here is not that the words have changed; it's that much of the substance -- the disturbingly overbroad view of who may be detained under the laws of war -- remains the same.

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Sarkozy To Obama: France Will Take Gitmo Detainee

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

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STRASBOURG, France — Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans _ popular here _ to e...

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Obama Pledges To Repair Relationship With Europe

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

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STRASBOURG, France — Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans _ popular here _ to e...

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Chavez: Gitmo Detainees Can Come Here

BBC | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he is prepared to receive detainees held by the US military at the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba....

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Yemeni Guantanamo Detainee Ordered Released By US Judge

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo detention center who said he fears f...

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Miss Universe Blogs About Visiting Guantanamo Bay: "Soooo Beautiful!"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

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The XX Factor's Hanna Rosin has been reading the blog of Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza. And, as it turns out, Miss Universe is sort of a nimrod! But...

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Obama's Yemen Problem

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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Instead of branding the Yemenis guilty until proven innocent, the United States and Yemen should prosecute those against whom they have evidence and repatriate the rest.

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Obama's Cabinet-Level 'Guantanamo Task Force' Holds First Meeting

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Top officials of the Obama administration met privately Monday to discuss how to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Attor...

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Guantanamo Abuse Worse Since Obama: Detainee Lawyer

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the ca...

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Paris Court Acquits Former Guantanamo Detainees

AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

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PARIS — A Paris appeals court on Tuesday overturned the terrorism convictions of five former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, ruling French police a...

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Holder Guantanamo Inspection Begins

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday visited the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the Obama administration weigh...

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Guantanamo Meets Geneva Rules: Pentagon

New York Times | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

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A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concludes that the prison complies with the h...

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Mislead When Convenient, Lie When Necessary

Norman Horowitz | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Norman Horowitz

As a child, it was difficult for me not to "remember Pearl Harbor" yet today, it is difficult for me to accept the inaccuracies of convenience promulgated by my government.

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Strange Bedfellows at Guantánamo

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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Jamil Dakwar

I've been observing the military commissions since 2004, and Guantánamo never felt more surreal or otherworldly than it did in what we hope were its ...

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