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• Justice Not Served

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 135
  Tags: aclu , Gitmo , gitmo prisoners , Guantanamo
  21 hours ago

• I will not sign any healthcare bill that increases anyone’s taxes, not 1 dime.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  You can’t believe anything Obummer says. Pass the stimulus to keep unemployment at 8%. When the government unintentionally provided incentives with a high tax, wage controlled regime during WWII, employers provided health insurance as “income equivalent” to make up the difference. There is a fundamental ...
  1 day ago

• New Docs: Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isnt all that new. But thats a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents : Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department ...
  1 day ago

• GOP Pandering On GITMO

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 635
  Starting with its semantically-nonsensical premise, America’s “War on Terror” ( -ism ) has only been slightly more effective than its “War on Drugs.” Which is to say it hasn’t been very effective at all. One big problem?  We’ve basically tried to have it both ways – on the one hand clumsily ...
  2 days ago

• Ft. Hood Shooting = Homeland Security Fail

  
  Good Sense — Authority: 502
  All Ill say is some heads better roll for this. You cant tell me that this man was openly hostile to the the war effort, praised muslim suicide bombers and was allowed to serve on a military base, hold firearms and council our returning soldiers. It should have been caught a long time ago that this man was a potential ...
  3 days ago

• Obama Confronted By SECOND Successful Domestic Terrorist Attack

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 476
  Ft. Hood, Texas: a Muslim terrorist murdered 12 and wounded 31 unarmed soldiers today. The moment I heard about this attack, I said to the group I was with, “You watch: the killers are going to be Muslims, and we’re going to be assured they aren’t terrorists.”  And other than the fact that I thought there ...
  3 days ago

• Sesame Street Song as Torture

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 125
  For many people, the Sesame Street theme song evokes images of a diverse group of joyous children playing with Big Bird and the other muppets. But for some Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan detainees, the song might be a reminder of long nights interrupted by screaming kids looking for the location of Sesame ...
  3 days ago

• Amherst, Mass., Agrees to Take Gitmo Detainees

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  An Amherst Special Town Meeting approved a resolution last night welcoming one or two cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees to Amherst, Mass. — once Congress agrees to lift the latest bans on their transfer. The town of 30,000 residents says it’s the first municipality in the nation to officially welcome the ...
  4 days ago

• Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year revealed (Part-IV)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov.5 (ANI): The Politico web site has spoken to a dozen political insiders and pulled together a list of President Barack Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year.Ten Worst: 6. No earmarks? Well, maybe just a few . . .billion Obama campaigned hard against earmarks, but in March, he signed [...]
  4 days ago

• Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. President! by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk4 November 2009I was so delighted that the Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Obama last Wednesday, included a hard-won concession that the administration can transfer prisoners from Guantánamo to the mainland to face ...
  4 days ago

• FBI knew of CIA torture, considered prosecution

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 134
  I find it very disturbing that the Obama administration hasn’t addressed the torture issue in a forthright manner and allowed all of the details about torture to be released.  I believe that all of those involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that the United States should be committed to ...
  5 days ago

• DEMINT, BARRETT, BROWN AND WILSON URGE PRESIDENT OBAMA TO REMOVE SOUTH CAROLINA FROM CONSIDERATION AS NEW HOME FOR GITMO TERRORISTS

  
  SCHotline Press Box — Authority: 119
  For Immediate Release November 4, 2009 Contact:  Emily Tyner Press Secretary 202-225-5301 WASHINGTON, DC—Yesterday, Congressman J. Gresham Barrett (SC-03) sent a letter to President Obama urging him to develop a detention process that would keep Guantanamo Baydetainees from entering the United ...
  5 days ago

• Flu Vaccine Fears

  
  the Dry Bones Blog — Authority: 560
  Sometimes I long for the "good old days", when I was a kid. (In the long-ago time). Back then we thought that Medical Doctors were scientists and mini-gods. We trusted them. Slang for something that was good for you was "just what the doctor ordered". These days, American TV ads for the latest drug carry a ...
  5 days ago

• MUST SEE VIDEO- Justice Denied: Voices from Gitmo- "Its a place where people lose their mind"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff "People were sodomized... with broomsticks..." The men in this video were held at Guantánamo for years without charge and denied any meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention. But now they are finally free. This is their story. Produced for the ACLU by Joel P. ...
  5 days ago

• American people take a backseat to Gitmo terrorists regarding the flu vaccine

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 452
  Nice to see how this government has its priorities placed. Still appeasing and kissing ass and frenching the stink hole. While regular American families wait, while American children wait, the terrorists at Gitmo get preferential treatment and get the swine flu vaccine ahead of Americans!SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – ...
  5 days ago

• Bush’s interrogators used slaps to ‘instill fear and despair’

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff My friend Larisa Alexandrovna has a piece up at Raw Story that you should go read. Heres a sample: Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations ...
  6 days ago

• Pentagon: Gitmo Detainees to Receive H1N1 Vaccine, Despite White House Claim

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman says the vaccine should be at the naval base by the end of November, though White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed questions on the subject. 
  6 days ago

• Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo

  
  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union — Authority: 540
  Most Americans have only seen Guantánamo detainees as one-dimensional caricatures. But a new ACLU video features original footage in which the men talk about their lives — before, after and during their detention by the U.S.
  6 days ago

• Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo – new ACLU video by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk2 November 2009In summer, ACLU representatives traveled to the UK to interview five former Guantánamo prisoners: Moazzam Begg and Omar Deghayes (both featured in my new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” co-directed by Polly ...
  6 days ago

• Terrorists in Gitmo to get H1N1 swine flu shots before you do

  
  Bent Corner — Authority: 133
  From CNN:The Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials there said Friday.The Pentagon made the decision based on U.S. government... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 days ago

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