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The New Bagram: Has Anything Changed?

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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Jonathan Horowitz

Having toured it, I give the new Bagram detention facility a "vastly improved" grade compared to what it was before. But, that being said, U.S. detention policy still has a long way to go.

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New Bagram Prison Procedures Still Fall Short

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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Jonathan Horowitz

New Bagram detainee procedures, while not all bad, fail to create a fair and effective detention system that will be credible in the eyes of the Afghan government, the Afghan people, and human rights groups.

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Bagram Prison Threatens Success in Afghanistan

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Jonathan Horowitz

The U.S. military finally seems to have learned that dropping bombs on civilians isn't the way to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. But neither is grabbing people out of their houses and jailing them.

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Jason Linkins

Obama's Bagram Detainees Decision 'Eerily Familiar'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

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The Washington Independent's Daphne Eviatar does a great service today, explaining, with a good deal of precision, how President Barack Obama's recent...

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Obama's Refusal To Reverse Bush Policy In Afghanistan Angers Human Rights Groups

The Independent | By Stephen Foley | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

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Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying ...

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Obama Backs Bush On Bagram Detainees

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional r...

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Afghan Prison At Bagram Poses Problem For Obama

Nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- For months, a national debate has raged over the fate of the 245 detainees at the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...

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