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H1N1 Vaccinations To Be Offered To Guantanamo Bay Detainees »
Posted by: gbudavid 4 weeks ago in Political News
The Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials there said Friday.
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Afghans Detail a Secret Prison Still Operating on a U.S. Base »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 hours, 41 minutes ago in Political News
An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time and without access to the International Committee of ...
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Supremes take case weighing judges' power to order release from Gitmo »
Posted by: Progressive 1 month, 1 week ago in Political News
The Supreme Court will hear a new case about the rights of Guantanamo detainees, this time involving prisoners who remain in custody even after the ...
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A Tortured Rationale for Torture »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months ago in Political News
Dick Cheney’s Torture Works! tour continues to run into reporting suggesting otherwise. On Sunday, the Washington Post published an article entitled “Detainee’s Harsh ...
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Obama Administration Making Progress on Transferring Guantanamo Detainees »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly confident about its ability ...
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Biden: GITMO Grew Terrorist Organizations | Politicususa »
Posted by: capj71 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
In an interview on Face the Nation today, Vice President Joe Biden gave more insight into the Obama administration’s plan to close the prison ...
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Switzerland To Consider Hosting Guantanamo Inmates »
Posted by: idyll 10 months ago in Political News
Switzerland is ready to consider taking in detainees from the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba if that helps to ...
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Big Government»Blog Archive»Illinois’Gov And Senator Think Terrorists Bring‘Good-Paying Jobs’ »
Posted by: calitennflo 6 days, 15 hours ago in Political News
Once again we see how clueless Democrats like Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Senator Dick Durbin are on matters of national security. With Barack Obama ...
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Conyers, Nadler Formally Request the DOJ to Appoint Torture Special Prosecutor »
Posted by: bubba2 7 months ago in Political News
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and other committee Democrats formally have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to probe and ...
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GOP Senator Boasts GITMO Detainees Have Better Healthcare than Average Americans »
Posted by: capj71 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
While trying to make the case for keeping Guantanamo Bay open as a detention center, Republican Sen. John Ensign said of the detainees, “They get ...
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Judges siding with detainees in Guantanamo habeas cases | McClatchy »
Posted by: kellekrapache128 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON — In one federal courtroom last month, a defense lawyer argued that the U.S. military had coerced a false confession out of a 50-year-old ...
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9/11 suspects to be tried in NYC civilian court »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 weeks, 1 day ago in News
Alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial, Attorney General Eric ...
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Circular Logic from Obama on Torture »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Recent News reports that Obama says those who actually did the physical torture of detainees cannot be tried for their crimes because they were “just ...
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China News: China warns Germany Against Taking Uighur Gitmo Detainees | China Digital Times (CDT) »
Posted by: hoo1live 2 months, 1 week ago in News
From The Local (Germany): China has warned the German government against accommodating Chinese Uighur Guantanamo Bay prisoners, saying they should face justice
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Obama revives military trials at Guantanamo »
Posted by: kellekrapache128 4 weeks, 1 day ago in News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that ...
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