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VIDEO: Man Sticks Up For His Constitutional Rights At An Internal Checkpoint In The U.S. »
Posted by: jovial 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
A guy refuses to allow border agents to search his vehicle at an internal checkpoint within the U.S. borders.
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1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds »
Posted by: gamahuche 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay ...
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YouTube - President Barack Obama - Change We Can Believe »
Posted by: Spadecaller 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
With a government owned by special interests, how can President Barack Obama and the American people expect significant change? This video features a commentary narrated ...
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Obama: Git-less, Not Gitmo »
Posted by: WikiMap 6 months ago in News
Mr. Obama pledged to close Git-less during his office run. He made it official in January by ordering its closure. Now what? What do we ...
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Six Years After Saddam,Man Dies In Detention After Torture--So Whats Changed? »
Posted by: Mikunited 3 months ago in Political News
A man died in Iraqi army detention after allegedly being beaten, given electric shocks with a cattle prod and burnt with cigarettes in a case ...
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President's Detention Plan Tests American Legal Tradition »
Posted by: engineer 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
President Obama's proposal for a new legal system in which terrorism suspects could be held in "prolonged detention" inside the United States without trial ...
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CIA says shuttering detention black sites »
Posted by: gamahuche 7 months ago in News
The CIA will decommission the infamous "black sites" where terrorism suspects were interrogated with harsh techniques that included waterboarding, agency director Leon Panetta said on ...
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Obama Approves New Team to Question Terror Suspects »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader effort to revamp U ...
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Obama to Approve Indefinite Detentions »
Posted by: ameliog 4 months, 1 week ago in Political News
As President Barack Obama struggles with the political backlash from a Congress determined to keep Guantanamo terrorism suspects out of the U.S., his administration ...
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The End of the Yoo Doctrine »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The Office of Legal Counsel has just released a series of previously secret opinions from the Bush Administration. Perhaps equally important, it has issued two ...
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City of Immigrants Fills Jail Cells With Its Own »
Posted by: ameliog 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields ...
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Where is the Change on Indefinite Detention? »
Posted by: populist 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Obama has announced that he is dropping President Bush’s use of the term “enemy combatant” from his lexicon. At the same time, he has ...
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Six Questions for Karen Greenberg, Author of The Least Worst Place »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Karen Greenberg, the director of NYU’s Center on Law and Security, took a close-up look at the first hundred days in the life of ...
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3 Gitmo prisoners sent to Ireland, Yemen »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 month, 1 week ago in News
WASHINGTON - With the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison by a January deadline in doubt, the Justice Department Saturday announced the transfer of three detainees ...
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SCOTUSblog (SUPREME COURT) - Obamadminstration: GITMO detainees ‘do not have due process rights’ »
Posted by: pc25 7 months, 4 weeks ago in News
U.S. OPPOSES TORTURE LAWSUIT
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The Obama Administration, taking its first position in a federal court on claims of torture of Guantanamo Bay detainees, urged ...Read (297) | Share | Discuss (12) | Read Full Story at scotusblog.com
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