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Obama's Guantanamo Plans Casualty Of Detroit Terror Plot?

McClatchy | Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

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The foiled Christmas Day plot to blow up a jetliner over Detroit has thrown up a major roadblock to President Barack Obama's pledge to close the priso...

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Lieberman: The United States Must Pre-Emptively Act In Yemen

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2009 | Politics

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn) a renowned hawk and one of the foremost champions of the invasion of Iraq, warned on Sunday that the United States fac...

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Guantanamo Closure Delayed By Another Full Year

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until ...

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Guantánamo Beyond Guantánamo

Jonathan Hafetz | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration is embracing the same malleable, elastic concept of a global "war on terror" that helped give rise to Guantánamo in the first place and that has no basis under the laws of war.

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Gitmo Show Trial And Tell

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

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What do you call a trial where the outcome is rigged from the inception? If you're a right-winger and obsessed with keeping Guantanamo Bay open, it's called a military commission.

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Philip Carter, Key Official In Guantanamo Closure, Resigns

The Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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A key official in the Obama administration's effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned. Philip C...

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Government Prepares Guantanamo Prison For Closing

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Earlier this month, Jamaican guest workers went through Camp X-Ray, the original terrorist detention site here, and uprooted weeds that had engulfed o...

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Government Rushes Towards Gitmo Plea Deals With Few Strong Cases

ProPublica | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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As the United States moves to prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others accused of being conspirators behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, feder...

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Obama: "I Don't Rattle," I'm Skinny But Tough

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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MIAMI — President Barack Obama says he's serious about closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That was the pledge he repeated Mon...

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Supreme Court To Hear Uighurs' Case

washingtonpost.com | Robert Barnes | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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The Supreme Court set aside the objections of the Obama administration and said Tuesday that it will consider whether judges have the power to release...

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House Votes To Allow Guantanamo Detainees Into U.S.

AP | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the House have lost a bid to block the transfer of any detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United Sta...

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WTF? Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize?

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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One can only hope (ah, that intoxicating word!) that President Obama will take his award seriously, and will use his new status as official man of peace to actually bring peace.

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Only Nine Months, But Still Deserving of the Prize

Diane Marie Amann | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Some are questioning the decision to give the award a scant nine months after the onset of Obama's Presidency. Such questions ignore just how much Obama and his administration have accomplished in that short time.

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Cheney Silent On Obama Counterterrorism Gains

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama visited the National Counterterrorism Center outside Washington and declared that "because of our efforts" al Qaeda...

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Guantanamo Prisoners To Be Tried in U.S., Congressional Agreement Allows

nytimes.com | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders have decided to allow detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought to the United States to face civ...

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Obama Team Clears 75 At Guantanamo For Release

Reuters | Jane Sutton | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

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MIAMI (Reuters) - An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort...

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Supreme Court Considers Bush Terror Policies Obama Defends

McClatchy | Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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Graphic photos of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners present the Supreme Court with its latest, but not its last, national-security legal dilemma. O...

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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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The Fear Factor

Bill Schneider | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Mr. Obama has proved that he can be inspiring. But at this point, what he needs to inspire most of all is fear.

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Obama: Don't Stop at Gitmo

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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According to the New York Times, more than 1 in 10 of immigrant fatalities that have taken place in detention over the past six years, has gone unreported, and has been "overlooked."

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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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Dozens Of Gitmo Cases Sent To U.S. Prosecutors

Associated Press | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

(WASHINGTON - AP) Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases have been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal trials in the nation's capit...

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Gitmo Trials: Being All They Can Be

David Danzig | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Could President Obama and the U.S. Congress transform a deeply flawed legal process -- struck down, at one time by the Supreme Court -- into one that acted like a real court?

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