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 town into “Guantanamo North” and claims that Standish [...]
***Call in Radio Show on this issue tonight at 8 pm! Details below*** The Controversy Many of Rand Paul's more libertarian supporters are concerned about his recent statements regarding the Guantanamo Bay detention center, though many of his more conservative supporters might be very pleased: For Immediate Release November 19, 2009 BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate...
With recent news reports centering on Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that some Guantanamo detainees would be prosecuted in federal court and revamped, albeit flawed military commissions, important stories from previous months related to the prison facility continue to sink ever deeper into the swamp of our collective amnesia. read more
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 11/18/09 – Legal proceedings, such as they are, rumbled to life again today at Guantanamo Bay. Pre-trial issues in the case of Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan man who was captured by the U.S. in Afghanistan in 2003, were heard in a military commission courtroom on a small hill a few miles away [...]
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 right-wing politicians, who persist in maintaining the [...]
Rand Paul may be Ron Paul’s son, but he is definitely no Ron Paul. A recent press release reveals the truth about this neocon: 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. [...] Dr. Paul believes [...]
Congressman Steve King Friday said terrorists would get a foothold in the U.S. if Sept. 11 suspects or suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba were tried in the United States, as Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled. Here is the key passage from the Iowa Republican’s comments during a [...]
Time Magazine reports on The Fall of Greg Craig : Obama quietly killed the Gitmo plan in the second week of May; Craig never got a chance to argue the case to the President. "It was a political decision, to put it bluntly," says an aide. ...The White House realized it had to start over on a signature issue....First to go was the release of the pictures of detainee abuse. Days later, Obama...
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. Cheney’s group, Keep America Safe, has released a short documentary...
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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 Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners....
U.S. Senator Dick Lugar, Chris Dickson, Dr. Tom Ringenberg, Congressman Mike Pence MIKE PENCE RECLAIMING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM For Immediate Release | Contact: Matt Lloyd matt.lloyd@mail.house.gov > or Mary Vought mary.vought@mail.house.gov > - 202-226-9000 Pence Urges President to Overturn “Wrongheaded Decision” Regarding Gitmo Detainees “Trying terrorists...
Republican Rep. - and Senate candidate - Mark Kirk introduced in the US House a few days ago a provision that would require a Federal assessment of security measures at key Illinois locations such as Chicago O'Hare Airport and the Willis Tower if plans go ahead to bring Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois. The Lake County News-Sun reports: Kirk ... noted that federal...
I think this sentence from an essay in the current Time magazine pretty much sums up, not only the tension between Obama's campaign rhetoric and the present realities in the war against terror, but also his general policies abroad: "Since then, experts within the government have struggled to come up with a policy that can reconcile the President's ideological opposition to indefinite detention...
Time has an interesting tick-tock this week about Greg Craig, the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies. At first, Obama was on board with Craig's plans. Then, reality set in. Here he is deciding whether to release a set of "torture memos" last spring: Obama arrived at [Rahm] Emanuel's office a few minutes later, took off his windbreaker...
'The terrorists lists are our Guantanamo," said Dick Marty, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (January 2008). The case of PMOI is an eloquent case. The inclusion of this movement is a path filled with hidden political agenda and abuse of power in violation of the rule of law." He added:'Iran justified the hanging of Mujahideen (PMOI), saying they are considered terrorists
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