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• H1N1: 300 doses of vaccine reach Gitmo

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 532
  November 10, 2009Updated H1N1 posts/symptoms/vaccineSource: APPentagon: 300 doses of H1N1 vaccine have arrived at Guantanamo Bay. But it’s still not enough to cover all the troops and healthcare workers stationed there. It’s wrong. Troops and troop support should be a priority.Also, “some” civilians who work ...
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• CAP: Postpone Gitmo Close, Send Leftovers to Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  The influential Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the Obama administration , is now calling on President Obama to push back the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center to July . That’s despite the president’s day-two directive to close the notorious prison by January. Closure has ...
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• Flashback: ABCs Boston Legal Ridiculed Idea MD Could Be a Terrorist

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 831
  Two-and-a-half years before Army Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim medical doctor, murdered 13 at Fort Hood in Texas in what more-and-more looks like a jihadist terrorist attack given his anti-American rants and ties to Islamic extremists, ABCs since-canceled Boston Legal drama ridiculed the idea a doctor could be a ...
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• Gitmo plan this month? Holder: Decisions by Nov. 16

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the administration will decide in the next week the fate of the remaining Guantanamo Bay detainees. Holder, speaking to reporters at a conference in Doha, Qatar, said “We will by Nov the 16th make the determination as to who can be tried in the reformed military ...
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• FBI Interrogators Argued in 2002 That ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Techniques Were Illegal and Ineffective

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  As former Vice President Dick Cheney and some Republican lawmakers continue to debate whether torture works and was a legitimate interrogation technique during the Bush administration, it’s almost jaw-dropping to read some of the memos that were written by the real experts on interrogation techniques in the U.S. ...
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• GOP Pandering On GITMO

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 633
  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 ...
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• Wall Street gets it all: Bailouts, bonuses, first dibs on H1N1 vaccine

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Healthcare When it comes to allocating scarce public resources, large corporations seem to have the upper hand in the US. We already know that many powerful companies, particularly the Wall Street investment banks, having gotten plenty of Washington cash. Now it looks like ...
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• Sesame Street Song as Torture

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  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 ...
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• Larry Craig Takes a Stance Against Gitmo

  
  WSJ.com: Washington Wire — Authority: 780
  Former Sen. Larry Craig signed a petition calling for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecuting suspected terrorists now held there in federal court rather than in military commissions that deny defendants constitutional rights.
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• Homeland defense force will be used in H1N1 “emergencies”

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 532
  November 5, 2009Updated H1N1 posts/symptoms/vaccineYes, troops will be used domestically to help out with H1N1 “emergencies”.CNN was discussing H1N1 vaccine shortage in the military – abroad and domestically. As well as the question of Gitmo detainees getting the vaccine before active military, which the ...
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• Ben Wizner, Torture Memos, and the Case for Prosecution

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 427
  Yesterday, I had the incredible opportunity to attend a lecture given by Ben Wizner , a staff attorney at the national ACLU . Wizner has been to Guantanamo Bay six times and is an undisputed expert on extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo, and the torture memos. In this lecture, he explained the history of torture ...
  6 days ago

• Graham Amendment Would Bar Trials of Terror Suspects in Federal Court

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  When I wrote my earlier post about the group of illustrious Americans urging the Obama administration to close Guantanamo and bring suspected terrorists to justice in U.S. federal courts, I neglected to mention that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), joined by Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb ...
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• Amherst, Mass., Agrees to Take Gitmo Detainees

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  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 ...
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• Zahir v. Bush (D.D.C. Oct. 28, 2009) – Discovery issues in GTMO habeas

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 429
  Judge Roberts has published a detailed, 15-page decision granting in part and denying in part Zahir’s motion for permission to propound various interrogatories in this habeas proceeding.The opinion contains extended discussion of what facts will ... Related Posts B An open letter to President George W. Bush – ...
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• “Gonna Write You A Letter …”

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 633
  U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett has sent a letter to his rival South Carolina gubernatorial campaigns which – for reasons surpassing our understanding – has the bloggers and reporters who are covering this race in a tizzy. Sheesh … it’s Gresham Barrett, people.  It’s not like there’s any real danger of this ...
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• Justice Denied: Voices from Guantanamo

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 602
  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.
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• Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year revealed (Part-IV)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  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 [...]
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• Lindsey Graham: Obama didn’t do the hard stuff to close Gitmo

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 580
  “And let me just say, the president, quite frankly, has screwed this up. You know, he announces on the first day of his being inaugurated that he’s going to close Guantanamo Bay and he didn’t do the hard stuff.” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham • Describing his disappointment with the Obama ...
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• Uighur Detainees Face Culture Shock in Palau

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 563
  The Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay who were recently released to the Pacific island nation of Palau will likely have a difficult time adjusting, VOA reports : “I think their primary concern is their legal status in Palau and whether they could permanently stay there,” said Alim Seytoff of the Uyghur ...
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• Release After 8 Long Years – Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs Press Release: United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 429
  Department of JusticeOffice of Public AffairsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESaturday, October 31, 2009 United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to PalauSix detainees who are Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity have been transferred from the ... Related Posts B Press Release: Freedom House Condemns ...
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