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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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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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Daniel Fried: Obama Naming Special Envoy For Gitmo Closure

AP | MATTHEW LEE and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is planning to appoint a special envoy to oversee the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, senior...

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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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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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DOD Gitmo Statements At Odds With Obama Administration

Plum Line | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Here's a key question: Will the existence of Bush-era holdovers in the Defense Department impede the Obama administration's vow to make a clean break ...

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Strange Bedfellows at Guantánamo

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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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Key Bush Gitmo Advisors Still Burrowed In At Pentagon

AP | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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A senior judge who has not followed President Barack Obama's order to halt military trials at Guantanamo Bay is among Bush administration appointees s...

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An Open Letter To Jeh Johnson/General Counsel, Department of Defense

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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As the rest of the world is standing by waiting to see us take responsibility for Gitmo, we should release the Uighur detainees into the United States and grant them provisional asylum.

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Obama Can't Review Gitmo Case Files: They Don't Exist

Washington Post | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the milit...

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Judge Gives Obama Time To Weigh In On Detainees

AP | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has decided to give the Obama administration time to weigh in on some of the legal cases brought by terror detainee...

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Obama's Decisive Break with Bush's "War on Terror" Policies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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Obama's new Orders are a bold start, but more detail is required, dangerous loopholes must be shut off permanently, and other parts of the Bush administration's dark legacy need to be swiftly addressed.

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Guantanamo: Obama Executive Order To Close Prison Full Text

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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On Thursday January 22, President Obama signed an executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Read the full text: By the authority ...

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Obama Official: Closing Gitmo Won't Be Easy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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At a briefing with a senior White House official on the topic of closing of Guantanamo Bay, one gets the sense that the process will be far more compl...

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Obama's Guantánamo Mistake: He's Not Closing Gitmo the Right Way

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Obama has issued an executive order to shut down the prison. That alone is not enough. An executive order can be changed -- easily.

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Gone-tanamo Bay: the Right Decision

Rep. John Murtha | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

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The problem with Guantanamo was never about its bricks and mortar. The problem with Guantanamo is that its very existence stains and defies the moral fiber of our great nation.

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Obama Closing Guantanamo: Preparing Order In First Week

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama say one of his first duties in office will be to order the closing of the U.S. military pr...

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Obama: Gitmo Not Likely To Close In First 100 Days (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.11.2009 | Politics

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In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week," President-elect Barack Obama said that he was committed to closing the prison at Guan...

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Bush Administration Tying Obama's Hands On Gitmo

Harpers | Scott Horton | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

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As President-elect Obama works to make good on his promise to shut down Guantanamo Bay, including the military commissions system that his predecessor...

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