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• Time to Pass The Buck and Start Pointing Fingers: Obama Living Up to His Absentee Legislator Past

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  During the Presidential “Media Fest” Campaign of 2007/08, many tried to impress upon the American people that Obama was an empty suit.  Quite simply, he had no significant legislative achievement to call his own.  Heck, as an Illinois State Senator, Obama voted “present” nearly 130 times, according to the ...
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• Gitmo snitches in witness protection

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -- Three of the "Lackawanna Six" -- men who were convicted after 9/11 of attending al Qaeda training camps -- have apparently entered the governments witness protection program as a reward for testifying at a Guantanamo Bay trial last fall, records show. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• The Long War on Terror: Obama Administration Plays Politics with Guantanamo

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 606
  This article from Nick Baumann at Mother Jones is filled with political-insider information, but I think it is a significant marker of how the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has moved from an Obama pledge in January 2009 to a site for internal Administration struggle in November. I learned ...
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• Role of ACLU Decisive in Moving KSM Trial to New York

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 695
  Originally written for PJM: Eric Holder called his decision to try the suspected plotters of 9/11 in New York City “the toughest decision I’ve had to make as attorney general.” It was unarguably the most controversial one. In my opinion, it was also the stupidest one. The decision has rightly received plenty ...
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• Guantanamo Bay: depressed US towns battle to house detainees in Gitmo North

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Several blighted US towns are battling for the right to host Guantanamo Bay terror detainees in their own backyards in an unusual case of reverse "nimbyism".
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• Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns: Who is Accountable Now?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  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 ...
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• John Bolton Still Touting Pre-9-11 Mentality on Terrorism Trials.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 135
  Why is this moronic man still given air time? Here Bolton argues against trying terrorists at all, saying that he would prefer simply holding them indefinitely. Its a startling reminder that, once any member of the Bush administration mentions "terrorism", then they stop believing in the law altogether. Trying ...
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• Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns in Obama Smoke Screen Effort

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 695
  -By Warner Todd Huston 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 ...
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• Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns in Obama Smoke Screen Effort

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston 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 ...
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• UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk26 November 2009Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was ...
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• On the President’s Gitmo Problem

  
  The Skepticians by James Richardson — Authority: 402
  On Wednesday, I appeared on MSNBC opposite Adam Serwer of The American Prospect to debate President Barack Obama’s failure to make good on a campaign pledge central to his shallow promise of “change:” the closure of Guantanamo Bay and the ‘necessary’ dismantling of the Bush-era detention policies. ...
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• Thanks, No Thanks and Thanks Again

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 135
  [ Hat-tip Sibel Edmonds , for whom we are always thankful.] And while things are decidedly imperfect this year, we remain thankful nonetheless that, unlike last year, these are not the photos we are forced to see on our Thanksgiving open thread this year. Mostly, we are ever thankful for those of you who share ...
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• Andy Worthington on Antiwar Radio and ABC: Gitmo, Torture, Trials and his new film

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Scott HortonAntiwar Radiowith Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk25 November 2009Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Obama’s broken promise to close Gitmo within a year, the enthusiastic U.S. embrace of rendition and torture after 9/11, the extralegal ...
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• Fallout From Obama’s Guantanamo Policy

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 435
  Interesting little nugget here: The New York Times’ Elizabeth Bumiller reports that Phillip Carter, the Pentagon’s deputy asst. secretary for detainee issues, resigned last Friday after only seven months on the job. Several Obama appointees have yet to even be confirmed by the Senate, yet Carter is out. His ...
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• Can the Death Penalty for Terrorists Fuel Violence?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) When Attorney General Eric Holder announced earlier this month that the suspected plotters of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would be tried in civilian court, he also promised to seek the death penalty for all of them. But the heated debate that followed over the supposed ...
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• Official Charged With Closing Guantánamo Quits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Phillip Carter resigned last Friday because of “personal issues,” a Pentagon official said.
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• Better Sent to Gitmo: Oh, The Movies I Gotta Destroy

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 623
  By Debbie SchlusselIt’s movie awards time, meaning that as a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, I have to vote on best movie of the year, best actor, etc.  Every major city has one of these film critics groups, and the decisions get published in the media.  I have UPS and FedEx delivering DVDs [...]
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• Greetings From Guantanamo Bay

  
  ~o ~o ~o SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG! o~ o~ o~ — Authority: 127
  ✪ Greetings From Guantanamo Bay ✪ I Have a Bad Case of Diarrhea ✪ Why Must I Cry? This music video is about a man whom befriended a fatherless ghetto boy. The boy stole from him time and time again. This video also speaks of a man who fathered twins with a woman he felt no love for. This song ...
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• Pakistan to petition President Barack Obama for release of woman doctor accused of alQaeda links

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Pakistan is to lodge a plea with America for the release a female doctor charged with collusion with alQaeda after she was arrested in Afghanistan last year.
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• Federal Prison in Illinois Will Bring up to 4000 Jobs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 134
  A proposed deal to house inmates from Guantanamo Bay in a prison in north western Illinois could bring as many as 4000 jobs to the area, according to Democrat lawmakers who are in support of the plan.  Their Republican counterparts are opposed to the deal, citing concern for the hazards of bringing terrorism suspects ...
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