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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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• Democrat demands hearing on KSM trial

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 710
  Brace yourself, an ounce of common sense has been found in a Democrat! Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) penned a letter to Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggesting military trials would be a more appropriate venue for the accused terrorists. “As a former prosecutor, I am not yet convinced that the right ...
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• The 2009 Republican Orgy of Bedwetting

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 565
  Getting wrapped up in local issues can be so time-consuming -  I just noticed that I’ve been missing out on the hilarious spectacle of Republican politicians all across the country (including Joe Lieberman, R – duped state) publicly soiling themselves with fear over the very idea that our great nation is ...
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• Illinois, Guantanamo north? White House releases economic impact study

  
  Lynn Sweet — Authority: 686
  WASHINGTON--As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Saturday leads a tour of the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center--a top Obama White House contender to house Guantanamo detainees--the White House released its first detailed economic impact statement on the jobs and money that will be channeled to northwestern ...
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• Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 495
  President 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 move swiftly to close this bitter icon of the Bush administration’s lawless detention ...
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• Poll: 55% of New Yorkers Oppose NY Trials for Terrorists

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 572
  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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• Links

  
  I Think ^(Link)...... — Authority: 430
  Global Warming: I n this NYTimes article on the hacked emails of scientists concerning global warming data you get this quote: In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical “trick” in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as ...
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• Rand Paul: Try, Convict and Lock Up Terrorists In Guantanamo

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  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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• Gitmo North

  
  Lynn Sweet — Authority: 686
  EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS WASHINGTON, D.C. This technical memo describes the likely economic impacts on the local economy of the purchase and modification of the state prison in Thomson, Illinois and its subsequent use by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Bureau of Prisons ...
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• Shooting the messenger

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  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: 571
  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: 442
  "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: 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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• 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: 847
  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: 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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• Six Illinois GOP House members snubbed by Obama White House on Gitmo North. Democrat senate candidate Giannoulias gets briefing

  
  Lynn Sweet — Authority: 686
  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: 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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• Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Guantánamo

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 495
  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: 784
  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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