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Obama Starts Reversing Bush Policies »
Posted by: Beau7890 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
President Obama moved swiftly yesterday to begin rolling back eight years of his predecessor's policies, ordering tough new ethics rules and preparing to issue ...
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Message to Obama: Prosecute Now! »
Posted by: populist 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Obama needs to prosecute Bush for the sake of the country, the constitution, and the rule of law. If all that is not a good ...
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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months ago in Political News
Those singled out for blame include President George W. Bush (for stripping prisoners of the protections of the Geneva Conventions in February 2002, which paved ...
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Marine who built Gitmo: U.S. lost moral high ground »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
The Marine commander who built the Guantanamo Bay prison said Thursday the U.S. lost the "moral high ground" with its brutal treatment of prisoners ...
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Obama softens Guantanamo Pledge »
Posted by: populist 10 months ago in News
Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has revised his election campaign promise to shut the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay within the first 100 days ...
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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Among the OLC memos released today [1], one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was ...
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Torture's Rendition »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
As a senior interrogator in Iraq, I conducted more than three hundred interrogations and monitored more than one thousand. I heard numerous foreign fighters state ...
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Europe’s role in closing Gitmo gets Irish boost »
Posted by: david_nwpa 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Ireland's agreement to take two Guantanamo prisoners demonstrates that patient diplomacy between the U.S. and Europe is starting to play its part in ...
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Will Bagram become Obama's Guantanamo? »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The new US government disappointed human rights activists when it chose to adhere to the Bush administration's position that detainees imprisoned at the Bagram ...
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Dems smack Obama for Gitmo fumbles »
Posted by: pc25 6 months ago in News
Politico reports that Democrats on Capitol Hill are fuming over Barack Obama’s incompetent handling of the Guantanamo Bay detention issue. They’re shocked, shocked ...
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Newsmax.com - Kit Bond: Obama Administration Playing Politics With Interrogation Evidence »
Posted by: k9kssr 5 months, 4 weeks ago in News
Sen. Kit Bond tells Newsmax that the Barack Obama administration is playing politics by "cherry-picking" the information it releases about the interrogation of terrorist detainees.
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Stephen Colbert Signs "Close Gitmo Now" Petition, On Air »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 week, 2 days ago in Political News
Last night, Roseanne Cash promoted the cause of closing Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on The Colbert Report. Last week, a group of international musicians that included ...
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Six Questions for Karen Greenberg, Author of The Least Worst Place »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 3 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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Rachel Maddow-Obama's MondayNewsDump - backs Bush-era detentions »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Rachel with the 'then and now' of Obama
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