Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Finally Free by digby Everyone should watch this video to remind ourselves of where hysterical Keyboard Commando rhetoric leads: 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. .
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isn't all that new. But that's a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents : Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department lawyers — that the abusive interrogation techniques being used on detainees at Guantanamo...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ft. Hood has exposed a terrible wound in the fabric of America, but that wound was there long before a lone gunman named Major Hassan decided to go postal on his fellow soldiers. Our ethical and moral values have been obliterated since September 11, 2001. Racism is on the rise. Religious fundamentalism of the kind that justifies the slaughter of innocents and torture and inhumanity has reared its ugly...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Uighurs are Muslims from East Turkmenistan who no doubt have legitimate grievances against the Chinese who have conquered and colonized their country, if such it ever was. But some of them decided to pursue jihad against China and went to Afghanistan to train with al Qaeda. They were there at the end of 2001 when we routed the Taliban and captured a number of terrorists and terrorist trainees....
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
P resident Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though, ten months on, it remains open) to advertise the new administration’s disdain for George Bush’s war-fighting tactics. And at every opportunity since, he has stressed that his policies -- on taxes, on the Middle East,...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged with involvement in the September 11 attacks to stand trial in a military court rather than a criminal court.
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Criticism of the Obama administration's handling of swine flu vaccines has bled into another area of politics: the Democratic push for health care reform. The administration has come under attack recently for reports that swine flu vaccines would be delivered to two of the most maligned classes of people in American politics--Guantanamo Bay detainees and Wall Street executives--before the rest of the...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A major national ad campaign is set to launch tomorrow tying the Obama administration's failure to provide flu vaccine on time and in quantity to fears of a government takeover of healthcare. The American Future Fund has produced and plans to put significant money behind the ad that is set to appear on both CNN and Fox News, and to play nationally, starting tomorrow. THE WEEKLY STANDARD understands...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Marc Lynch on the state of Arab public opinion: Arab audiences see Guantanamo still open (including in an endlessly repeating al-Jazeera promo), US troops escalating in Afghanistan, Gaza still blockaded, and no settlement freeze or peace talks between Israel and...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The pushback of the GOP's remaining moderates against the Teabagger crowd begins today . The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country. “To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A bi-partisan group of dignatories (list here , pdf)has issued a declaration for safely closing Guantanamo. It is backed by the Constitution Project and Human Rights First . The plan supports trying detainees in federal court and opposes indefinite detention. The declaration is available here (pdf). The largest bipartisan group of prominent Americans to propose a plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By GottaLaff "People were sodomized... with broomsticks..." 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. Produced for the ACLU by Joel P. Engardio and Ateqah Khaki Directed, Edited and Written by Joel P. Engardio Production...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House denied on Tuesday that any H1N1 flu vaccine was going to terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, heading off a controversy over swine flu prevention priorities.
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The White House today seemed to indicate that detainees at Guantanamo will not be able to receive immunizations for the H1N1 flu.
Cave News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
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sahilsimran | 02/24/2009
Under the plan being crafted inside Obama's camp, some Guantanamo Bay detainees would be released and others would be charged ... more
summers | 02/10/2009
'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
timbe | 01/13/2009
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