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• Congressman BillyBob: Get-out-of-jail-free card for terrorists?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  When the ACLU loses on a security issue, America wins. And vice versa. On Monday, the ACLU lost when the Supreme Court overturned the Second Circuits order to release photos of alleged detainee abuse. The ACLU had sued to get the photos despite concerns that they could be used by our enemies to endanger American ...
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• Supreme Court rules to keep detainee abuse photos secret

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court did all it could Monday to lock up forever some incendiary photos that show U.S. soldiers abusing foreign prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan . Yielding to Congress and the White House , justices took the expected but formal step of reversing a ...
  12 hours ago

• Quote du Jour: How Low Can Steve Go?

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 128
  Via The TO Star : PORT OF SPAIN–Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a partisan shot at his opposition critics while touring the HMCS Quebec in Trinidad-Tobago Sunday. The Canadian ship and navy officers are helping with security for the Commonwealth summit. Harper, in brief comments to the Canadians, was ...
  13 hours ago

• Who Really “Supports The Troops”?

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 435
  Photo by Master Corporal Angela Abbey, Canadian Forces Combat Camera The whole detainee affair, which I’ve largely ignored until now because as far as I’m concerned Canada has done more than it’s fair share of diligence, has spilled over into a partisan fighting match between the Liberals and Conservatives. It ...
  16 hours ago

• Charges of Abuse at Bagram Highlight Ongoing Problem With ‘Obama’s Gitmo’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  This weekend’s news that inmates at the part of the prison at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, run by Special Operations forces had suffered abuse sounded eerily reminiscent of the charges we’ve heard from previous prisoners victimized by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Joshua Partlow and Julie Tate at ...
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• Former Army Ranger from Sweetwater accused of war crimes finally tells his story

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 131
  By Matt Lakin Photo by J. Miles Cary Army veteran Ray Girouard talks about his experiences in the Iraq war Nov. 23 at the Sweetwater Barber Shop. Girouard, 27, served two tours of duty in Iraq before being accused of war crimes in the deaths of several Iraqis. He
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• The Palestinian Prisoners’ Plight

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 131
  Bianca Zammit and Fadi Skaik There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is of itself in direct contravention of international law, the whole arrest, judiciary and imprisonment process compromises their basic human rights. ...
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• Israel to free 980 Palestinians under swap deal

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 131
  Israel radio reported on Sunday Israel’s readiness to release 980 Palestinian detainees in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captured in the Gaza strip in 2006.The announcement came after an activist group petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court against a swap deal, according to the Hebrew-language daily ...
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• SEALs charged: Yorktown man, two others accused of abusing detainee

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 131
  Three Navy SEALs, including a Yorktown man who was a champion high school swimmer, have been charged in the alleged assault of a most-wanted detainee they captured in Iraq. The case is already stirring controversy over the prospect of the SEALs facing courts-martial for their treatment of a man thought to have ...
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• Powerful clan denies role in Philippine massacre (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - A powerful Muslim clan accused of staging a massacre last week of 57 civilians, including dozens of journalists, denied any involvement in the killings in a rare news conference Sunday.
  2 days ago

• Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns: Who is Accountable Now?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  Earlier this month President Obama fired Greg Craig, his main counsel on matters concerning the Guantanamo Bay Facility. And this week Obama sheds another one of his GITMO team with the resignation of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Detainee Policy, Phillip Carter. It appears that Obama’s GITMO team ...
  2 days ago

• Yeah, About That Dissent You Were Expressing

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 680
  The newest troubling twist in the Canadian Afghan detainee torture scandal is that the chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission that was investigating Colvin’s allegation and who blasted government for, “stonewalling the inquiry by withholding the requested documents, ” (sound familiar? yeah…) will ...
  3 days ago

• Mulroney Contradicts MacKay

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 128
  Ever since Peter MacKay has been under fire about allegations of torture in Afghanistan during the period of 2006-2007, he has repeatedly said in the house that the transfer agreement was changed once the government had credible evidence to back up those claims . From November 25, 2009, Hansard : Hon. Peter ...
  4 days ago

• Don Martin: Generals cut into Colvins detainee testimony(Afghanistan torture allegations)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  OTTAWA — When Cabinet ministers were attacking diplomat Richard Colvin’s credibility and denying his warnings about the Afghan torture of detainees handed over by Canadian soldiers, it wasn’t a fair fight. Mr. Colvin triumphed because he had spent 18 months on Afghan soil, visited its prisons and talked ...
  5 days ago

• Another Gitmo official quits

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 144
  Even though Phillip Carter is a former WaPo staffer, this story on him resigning as asst. SecDef for detainee affairs doesn’t even pretend to try to dig for possible deeper reasons for the resignation, contenting itself with the official boilerplate about “personal and family reasons.” Whatever the reason — ...
  5 days ago

• Prisoner torture out of Canadas hands

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  No one should be surprised at reports that at least some captured Taliban fighters have been tortured in Afghanistan. This is, after all, a country that barely is functioning. Was every single detainee handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghan authorities in 2006-07 tortured, as alleged by former diplomat Richard ...
  1 week ago

• The Sunday Sanity Challenge

  
  All Da King's Men — Authority: 419
  Heres President Obama doing his best Judge Roy Bean impersonation during an NBC interview: NBC: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — can you understand why it is offensive to some for this terrorist to get all the legal privileges of any American citizen? Obama: I don’t think it will be offensive at all when he’s ...
  1 week ago

• Quote du Jour: Man Without a Conscience

  
  liberal catnip — Authority: 128
  Hillier minimizes detainee abuse: Mr. Hillier derisively compared the political uproar that surrounded Mr. Colvins parliamentary testimony to people “howling at the moon” and said nobody ever raised torture concerns with him during the 2006-2007 period in question. “I dont remember reading a single one of ...
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• New Interrogation Unit Unlikely to Question Ft. Hood Shooter

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (USUHSy/ZUMA Press) The new unit created by the Obama administration to interrogate the highest-value terrorism targets is unlikely to play a role in the case of the highest-profile new potential terrorist target in U.S. custody: Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter. The ...
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• Video: Sen. Leahy Says No Need To Interrogate Osama bin Laden

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  Defending Attorney General Eric Holder’s historically bad decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other terrorists in civilian court, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) told CSPAN this morning: “For one thing, capturing Osama bin Laden, we’ve got enough on him we don’t need to interrogate him.” Watch: ...
  1 week ago

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