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• Poll: 55% of New Yorkers Oppose NY Trials for Terrorists

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 571
  Why do people feel this way? Because trying war criminal terrorists in regular courts is plain and simple stupid : Just 35% of New York State voters agree with Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and five other suspected terrorists in a civilian ...
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• Rand Paul: Try, Convict and Lock Up Terrorists In Guantanamo

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  For Immediate Release November 19, 2009 BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts. “Foreign terrorists do not ...
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• Shooting the messenger

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  Shooting the messenger Aljazeera.net November 20, 2009 Shooting the Messenger – Part 1 Shooting the Messenger – Part 2 Shooting the Messenger – Part 3 Shooting the Messenger – Part 4 Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera’s documentary on the ...
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• The administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  The administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials By Glenn Greenwald Attorney General Eric Holder testifies Wednesday on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight. November 20, 2009 (updated below – Update II) ...
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• Pro and Con: Obama, Geithner and Guantanamo

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 441
  "What Geithner Got Right" (David Brooks-NY Times): In retrospect, their performance during this trial was impressive. Events also vindicate Geithner’s basic policy instincts. The criticism back then was that Geithner was neither bold nor visionary. He was too cautious, too much the insider and bureaucrat. But ...
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• Michigan Town Tells Liz Cheney To Peddle Her Fearmongering Elsewhere

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they want Gitmo detainees in their town. ...
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• Welcome Gitmo Detainees!

  
  Grant Miller Media. — Authority: 127
  The Justice Department recently proposed moving 100 alleged terrorists from Guantánamo Bay to a vacant prison in Northwest Illinois when the controversial detention facility closes in 2010. As a lifelong Illinoisian , Id like to welcome these alleged terrorists and jihadists to my home state. I hope your ...
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• Michigan Town Rejects Liz Cheney’s ‘Fearmongering’ And Welcomes Guantanamo Detainees

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 848
  Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking out against a possible transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the city. The video ominously warns that the transfer would turn the ...
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• Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released by a U.S. federal district court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners. Judge Gladys Kessler’s written opinion is still ...
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• Six Illinois GOP House members snubbed by Obama White House on Gitmo North. Democrat senate candidate Giannoulias gets briefing

  
  Lynn Sweet — Authority: 685
  Below, release from six Illinois GOP House members..... All: Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi ...
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• Gitmo Prisoner’s Death: Suicide or Murder?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that prison soon. I admit I ...
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• Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Guantánamo

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 527
  In the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that five Guantánamo prisoners — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — will face federal court trials in New York, and five others will face trials by Military Commission, much of the media has been consumed with the whining of opportunistic ...
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• Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 782
  Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they want Gitmo detainees in their town. Cheney’s group, Keep America Safe, has released a short ...
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• Detainees to Illinois: Can Obama’s Home State Sink Even Lower?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Illinois can be extra proud of its Democratic elected officials these days as they have joined to create a perfect storm of stupidity resulting in the possibility that terrorist detainees may be transferred to an unopened new prison in the rural northwestern corner of the Prairie State. Favorite son Barack Obama ...
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• Burris A ‘Qualified’ Flop As U.S. Senator

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee has returned a “qualified admonition” of Illinois Sen. Roland Burris for his contacts with disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich before Blago appointed Burris to Barack Obama’s vacant Senate. The ethics committee basically said Burris ...
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• UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case by Andy Worthington

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 150
  Those of us who have been aware that the principles of open justice in the UK are being threatened in an unprecedented manner have, to date, focused largely on the use of secret evidence in cases related to terrorism — widely ignored by the general public, and by much of the media — and on the use of ...
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• Jello Biafra and Shepard Fairey Spoof Obama Hope Image

  
  Spinner — Authority: 745
  Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Any album with a title that openly mocks President Obama needs a cover thats equally subversive, and Jello Biafra s artwork for The Audacity of Hype certainly delivers. The former Dead Kennedys frontman opted for a version of Shepard Faireys famous "HOPE" picture and ...
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• No one wants the Gitmo detainess

  
  Reformed Chicks Blabbing — Authority: 502
  Obama learns the obvious: no one wants to take the Gitmo detainees . President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison -- partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees. Prisoners like Walid Abu Hijazi. ...
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• Wasting the honeymoon:So far Bush has a better record for closing Guantanamo

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  By the looks of things at Guantanamo no one is shutting the place down. McDonalds this month has advertised a job opening at Gitmo: an assistant manager willing to relocate to the fast-food chains only outlet on the communist island of Cuba, and one within sight of the razor-ribbon guarding the terror detainees camp ...
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• Khadr to face military commission in the US.

  
  KenonCanpolitics — Authority: 127
  As the article notes the US has never recognised the fact that when apprehended Khadr was a juvenile and should be considered a child soldier. The military commissions are also as the article also points out a second class system of justice in that among other things hearsay evidence can be presented and evidence ...
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