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Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, War on Terror, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Binyam Mohamed, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Detention Policy Task Force, World News, Habeas Corpus, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News, Sabir Lahmar, Umar Abdulayev, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Judge Gladys Kessler, Pentagon, Yemen, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Saudi Rehabilitation, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Uighurs, Yasim Basardah, Cia, Torture, Politics News

Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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If It Squeals Like Pork...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: F-22, House Appropriations Committee, John Murtha, Pentagon, Senate Appropriations Commitee, Robert Gates, Appropriations Process, Earmarks, Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Appropriations, Congressional Earmarks, Budget Process, Appropriations Committee, Pentagon Budget, C-17, Politics News

You can always use an extra transport plane -- that's the way I figured it. I knew just where to find one, too. I called Congress.

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The F22: Toe of the Dragon

John Feffer | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: F-22, Pentagon, Military Budget, World News

President Obama has started his fight with America's great dragon, the military-industrial complex. The toe, in this case, is the F-22, a stealth fighter jet.

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Robert Gates Scores Big Wins On Weapons Cuts

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, F-22, Robert Gates F-22, Robert Gates, Robert Gates Air Force, North Korea, Islamic Republic of Iran, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...

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Defense Secretary Scores Spending Cuts, But Not Satisfied: "It Would Be Nice To Win Our Current Wars"

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Department of Defense, US Military, Afghanistan, F-22, Weapons, Defense Budget, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Military Spending, US Military Spending, Iraq, Robert Gates, Defense Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...

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Navy Commander Accuses Miami Herald Reporter Of Sexual Harassment

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Jeffrey Gordon, Carol Rosenberg, US Navy, Miami Herald, Politics News

Tensions between journalists and military officials are nothing new. But a bitter series of clashes between a top Navy spokesman and a Miami Herald mi...

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Obama Admin. Still Considering Bringing Some Gitmo Detainees To U.S.

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Gitmo Detainees, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Eh Charles Johnson, Obama Administration, House Armed Services Committee, Gitmo, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoner...

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Pentagon Seeks To Overhaul Afghan Prison Where Detainee Abuse Occurred

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

Read More: Warwire, Afghanistan, Pentagon, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan Prisons, World News

A sweeping United States military review calls for overhauling the troubled American-run prison here as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial sy...

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Lawmakers Blast Obama For "No-Visit" Gitmo Policy

ABC News | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Guantanamo Uighurs, Department of Defense, White House, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Obama, Uighurs, Gitmo, China, Senators, Politics News

A Pentagon official Thursday largely refused to answer lawmakers' questions about why members of Congress are prohibited from meeting with Guantanamo ...

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Pentagon Won't Ban Tobacco Products In War Zones

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Troops, Tobacco Ban, Smoking, War in Afghanistan, Health, Tobacco Producs, War in Iraq, War Zone, Defense Department, Big Tobacco, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense official...

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Probing the Pentagon: Are Gays Really More Dangerous than Neo-Nazis?

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Congress, Pentagon, Domestic Terrorism, U.S. Military, Homeland Security, Neo-Nazis, White-Supremacists, Politics News

A neo-Nazi skinhead who wants to obtain weapons and combat training to use in a future, domestic "race war" can most likely continue serving in the US army with impunity.

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How Much Does the U.S. Empire Cost?

John Feffer | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Ghana, Empire, Africom, Obama, Africa, World News

Obama's product -- America -- has taken a beating in the marketplace over the last eight years or so. The president has to do some serious rebranding.

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Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Vietnam War, Escalation, Martin Luther King Jr., Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, Special National Security Estimate, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Politics News

The president has set a limit on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. For now. That's how escalation works. Ceilings become floors. Gradually.

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Harold P. Ford on Robert McNamara in Retrospect

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, Pentagon, Robert McNamara, Cia, Vietnam, Politics News

Ford took McNamara to task on several points, but on none more severely than McNamara's complaint that "there were no Vietnam experts" to whom top policymakers could turn for advice.

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White House, New York Stock Exchange Among Targets Of Cyber Attack

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, White House Cyber Attack, Pentagon, North Korea Cyber Attack, Massive Cyber Attack, Cyber Attack, New York Stock Exchange, Politics News

WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites i...

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Gates: Pentagon Considering Easing Don't Ask Don't Tell

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Pentagon Don't Ask Don't Tell, Pentagon DADT, Obama Don't Ask Don't Tell, Robert Gates, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he wants to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces "more...

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Transformative: Le Cinema de Michael Bay

William Bradley | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment

The fact that it is considered preposterous for a writer to not dismiss Bay's work in the most vehement of terms points up a dramatic disconnect between the critical community and the movie-going audience.

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Supreme Court Will Not Hear 9/11 Victims Claims Vs. Saudi Arabia

AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Insurance Co. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Terrorism, 9/11, King Abdullah, Obama, Saudi Arabia, War on Terror, September 11, Terror, Al Qaeda, Supreme Court, World Trade Center, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its prin...

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Why It's Time for LGBT Democrats to Get Over Their Battered Wife Syndrome

Michael Rowe | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lt. Col. Victor J. Fehrenbach, Gay Rights, Department of Defense, Glaad, Doma, Rick Warren, Dan Choi, Justice Department, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Michael Jensen, Politics News

What if, instead of giving out a million dollar booty-call, the LGBT donors had suddenly crossed their collective political and economic legs, and told the DNC "No more freebies. Not without that ring."

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Got a Minute? Congressman McGovern and 80% of Afghans Need You

Tom Andrews | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Appropriations, Pentagon, Congress, Department of Defense, Jim McGovern, Afghanistan, Politics News

The question is why the leadership on both sides of the political aisle are so set against an amendment that does what the president himself has said is required in this war torn country.

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Its Official! Pentagon Cyber Command Gets Ready to "Stand Up"

Frida Berrigan | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boeing, Pentagon, Cybersecurity, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Cyberwar, Politics News

It seems to me that the Pentagon, the administration and the military industrial complex are all treating cyberspace like any other battle domain.

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Congress Needs to Hear From Us Today on Afghanistan

Tom Andrews | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Congress, Military, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Appropriations, Democrats, Jim McGovern, Barack Obama, Politics News

This week Congress is set to authorize $550 billion in defense spending and, with it, an additional $130 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghani...

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Will Congress Put Useless Fighter Jets Above America?

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: F-35-Lightning-Ii, Pentagon, Nuclear Waste, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Department of Defense, Robert Gates, President Obama, F-22 Raptor, F-22, Nuclear-Waste, Department of Energy, Defense Spending, Pentagon Budget, Defense Department, Barack Obama, Politics News

Congress is about to throw $369 million (on a down-payment of $2 billion) for a dozen F-22 fighter jets that even the Pentagon doesn't want.

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McChrystal Really Gets It... Now Has to Deliver

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Stanley McChrystal, Civilian Casualties, Civilian-War-Victims, Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

The incoming US and Allied Forces Commander in Afghanistan has rightly put the "Afghan people" front and center.

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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

Denis Campbell | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Edward Fitzgerald, EU Court of HUman Rights, Nasa, Natwest 3, UK Extradition Act, David Blunkett, Sting, Ed Gibson, David GIlmour, Clark McClelland, Cyber Terrorism, Mark Haddon, Kevin Anderson, Gary McKinnon, Csn, Graham Nash, Pentagon, Dustin Hoffman, Aspergers-Syndrome, Dan Ackroyd, Peter Howson, The Guardian, UK House of Lords, Microsoft, Kaim Todner, The Rest of the Story, Rain Man, Federal Prosecutors, 7-7 Tube Bombings, Bush Administration, Karen Todner, Paul Harvey, War Games, Home Secretary, Scott Christie, Pink Floyd, UFO Obsession, Janis Sharp, Qc, World News

In many ways Gary's disease reveals an intellectually and emotionally na�ve child locked in a man's body. There his mind is both his biggest friend and greatest enemy.

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