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• White House: Gitmo transfers mean jobs (in Illinois)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  THOMSON, Ill., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Thousands of jobs would be created in Illinois if the U.S. government purchases a nearly empty prison there to house terror detainees, a study indicates. The study, performed by the Obama White House Council of Economic Advisers and obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times, asserted that 2,290 ...
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• Andrew Sullivan: Why Cheney is afraid to close Gitmo

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 687
  By GottaLaff Via Greg Sargent , a great excerpt from Sully: [H]ere’s Andrew Sullivan on why the Cheney clan is waging a death struggle against transfering Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil : What Cheney fears, I suspect, is that Gitmo will be shut down, that history will record it as the lowest point in ...
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• Thomson prison takeover could mean 3,800 permanent new jobs

  
  Peoria Pundit — Authority: 440
  From ABC News : President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers has prepared an economic analysis of job creation if the federal government takes over the underutilized Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for the purposes of housing detainees currently at Guantanamo Bay, as the Obama administration is ...
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• Doonesbury: Torture edition

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 687
  By GottaLaff Trudeau attacks a subject I am very familiar with: (click on image to enlarge)
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• White House: Gitmo North could create 3,000 jobs

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  In this mornings Chicago Sun-Times , Lynn Sweet reports that the proposed Gitmo North in Thomson, Illinois could create 3,000 jobs, mostly be expanding the mostly empty prison and using it to house inmates besides al Qaeda terrorists. Be skeptical. This is the same administration that has been exposed as liars ...
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• Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk22 November 2009One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born baby daughter, who was running a small bakery in Jalalabad, Afghanistan at the time of the ...
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• Dennis Miller and Kyndra Rotunda on Bringing the KSM Trial to NYC

  
  Ft. Hard Knox — Authority: 479
  On Monday’s show last week, Dennis Miller interviewed the Author of Honor Bound, former JAG Officer in the U.S. Army Individual Ready Reserve, and Chapman University School of Law Visiting Assistant Professor, Kyndra Rotunda, and discussed the Obama Administration’s decision to bring the Gitmo terrorists to New ...
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• Could KSM seek asylum if that trial thing doesnt work out for some reason?

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 609
  (You mean like a single moonbat juror holdout or maybe an anti-death penalty nut or something like that?) Thats what several US Senators want to know. Dinah would too. From the NY Daily News Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee today are demanding to know the immigration status of Khalid Shaikh ...
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• Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk21 November 2009President Obama’s admission in China that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the closure of Guantánamo is disastrous for the majority of the 215 men still held, and for those who hoped, ten months ago, that he would ...
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• Steve Crowder on Gitmo

  
  Dr Roy's Thoughts — Authority: 516
  
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• American sheep fast asleep! (Part ONE of TWO)

  
  22MOON.COM — Authority: 491
  . . . . . . Jihad and America: The Land that Cried Sheep By Selwyn Duke __ November 9th, 2009 American Thinker AMERICANTHINKER.COM   Home   ___ ...
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• American sheep fast asleep! (Part TWO of TWO)

  
  22MOON.COM — Authority: 491
  . . . . . Jihad and America: The Land that Cried Sheep By Selwyn Duke __ November 9th, 2009 American Thinker AMERICANTHINKER.COM Home   ___ ...
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• Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Guantánamo by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk21 November 2009In 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 ...
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• Guess why Pres BO cant close GITMO?

  
  My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. — Authority: 140
  Ed Morrissey alerted us to a very interesting from The AP: Behind missed Gitmo deadline: No one wants jailees "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 ...
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• Andy Worthington on The Peter B Collins Show

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  The Peter B Collins ShowInfo on Podcast #69with Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk20 November 2009British journalist Andy Worthington returns to update us on the delayed closure of Guantanamo and the Obama decision to try KSM and others in Federal Court in New York. Worthington is ...
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• Michigan Town Tells Liz Cheney To Peddle Her Fearmongering Elsewhere

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 807
  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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• Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 687
  By GottaLaff Good news and hope for those detainees who should not be there in the first place: 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 from the U.S. detention facility at ...
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• Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s conflicted DOJ

  
  Michelle Malkin — Authority: 822
  Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here)I’ve been pounding on corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder’s brazen conflicts of interests and terror-friendly law firm work. Now, the Washington Times has the exclusive on a DOJ recusal list that looks to be the tip of the ...
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• Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 763
  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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• Gitmo Prisoner’s Death: Suicide or Murder?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 763
  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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