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Atlanta Political Buzz Examiner: General Petreaus in FOX interview: US violated Geneva Convention »
Posted by: barborka33 6 months ago in News
Just hours prior to giving his commencement speech at Atlanta's Georgia Gwinnett College, U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus clearly stated United States has ...
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Documents say detainee near insanity »
Posted by: ameliog 1 year, 1 month ago in News
A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation ...
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SPECIAL PREVIEW. The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard »
Posted by: galletta6121 6 months, 1 week ago in News
On January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama issued his first executive order: He was closing the detention center at the Guantá namo Bay Naval Base ...
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Morality and Enhanced Interrogation Techniques »
Posted by: galletta6121 6 months, 1 week ago in News
There is, first of all, the matter of morality. Critics of enhanced interrogation techniques have taken to saying that Americans don’ t torture, period – meaning ...
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Obama's Rebranding of Gitmo Policy | The Maine View »
Posted by: deviger 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
When President Obama announced he would close the detention center at Guantanamo the reactions from liberals and conservatives were exactly what anyone could have expected ...
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Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols suing prison for giving him unhealthy food »
Posted by: Butterflycharms 6 months, 1 week ago in News
Oklahoma City bomber, Terry Nichols, is suing Supermax prison Colorado for serving him unhealthy food that's giving him bleeding hemorrhoids.
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Senate Refuses To Close Gitmo »
Posted by: samgalvez 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The Obama administration lost to a legislative fight because the Senate decided not to transfer Gitmo s prisoner into the U.S. and the closing ...
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The Nattering Nabobs of Knee-Knocking | The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! »
Posted by: omnipotentpoobah-56 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Nobody is more weak-kneed than a chicken-hawk. The former Vice Capon and his nattering nabobs of knee-knocking prove that with a Chicken Little worldview that ...
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Bin Laden driver convicted of war crimes »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 3 months ago in News
A military jury on Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty on some counts but cleared him of others in the first ...
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Nancy Pelosi: Damaged Beyond Repair »
Posted by: nkmar 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Well, well, well...it would seem that Nancy Pelosi has outed herself as a liar...a disingenuous, political opportunist, hell-bent on making sure that her ...
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U.S. sends Gitmo detainee to France for release »
Posted by: fredo110 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have released a well-known Algerian detainee and flown him to France, where he will be allowed to join ...
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Verdict due in US trial of bin Laden's driver »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 3 months ago in News
A verdict awaits Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, this week in a trial seen as a test of the controversial military tribunals ...
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The End of the Military Commissions? »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 3 months ago in News
I'd just as soon they blew up the military commission system and put these cases directly into civilian courts rather than dignifying an organization ...
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A Tyrannical Farce at Gitmo »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 3 months ago in News
The Pentagon’s entire “judicial” system at Gitmo is nothing more than a tyrannical farce. The sooner it’s extinguished, the better off everyone will ...
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Cheney Says Waterboarding Is OK, Gitmo Should Stay Open »
Posted by: TimALoftis 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
In an exclusive interview Monday with ABC News , Vice President Dick Cheney issued an unapologetic defense of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies, including the ...
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