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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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Obama Guantanamo Closing: White House Regroups After Missteps

Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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This article by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica, and Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, was published by ProPublica under a Creative Commons license. With ...

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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 Administration Making Progress On Getting Detainees Out Of Gitmo

Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly con...

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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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Mohammed Jawad, Teenage Afghan Detainee, To Be Transferred To Civilian Court

Washington Independent | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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It wasn't until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arre...

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Guantánamo Closing Faces Major Hurdles, Causing Headaches For The White House

New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON and ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- With six months left before a White House deadline, the Obama administration is struggling with legal, political and logistical problems...

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Obama's Radical Gitmo Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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Ari Melber

Obama's controversial detention plan for Guantanamo detainees keeps leaking and it is a fundamentally radical, dangerous and potentially unconstitutional approach.

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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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Sam Stein

Holder: Indefinite Detention Will Include Measures Of Due Process

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Eric Holder asserted on Wednesday that terrorism suspects indefinitely detained by the United States would be granted opportunities for due process, b...

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Petraeus Endorses Obama's Plans To Close GITMO, End Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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General David Petraeus said this past weekend that President Obama's decision to close down Gitmo and end harsh interrogation techniques would benefit...

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Gates: Guantanamo "Taint" On U.S. Reputation

AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Obama administration had no choice but to order the shutdown of the prison at Guantanamo be...

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Obama Guantanamo Speech: Pledges To "Clean Up The Mess"

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama fought Thursday to retake command of the emotional debate over closing Guantanamo, denouncing "fear-mongerin...

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Obama Huddles With Human Rights Groups Before Security Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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Under heavy criticism for a series of decisions on national security that resembled, for some, those of the Bush years, President Barack Obama hosted ...

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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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Webb Criticizes Obama's Guantanamo Strategy As Unreasonable

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Jim Webb no longer believes President Obama's schedule for closing down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay is reasonable, claiming on Sunday that ...

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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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Sam Stein

"Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act" Announced By GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

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The GOP clearly sees a chink in the Obama armor when it comes to the closure of Guantanamo Bay. A jarring new advertisement on the subject released by...

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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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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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Gitmo Lawyers: The Last Growth Industry?

William Fisher | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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The Pentagon is offering $39,407-$130,211 a year for lawyers who will help respond to habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees in federal courts.

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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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Obama's Yemen Problem

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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Human Rights Watch

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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