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14 Dec 2009 11:14

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U.S.: The Supreme Court skips out on defining Gitmo prisoner rights

Four Guantanamo prisoners (including these two) sued over torture allegations. An appeals court dismissed their case; now the Supreme Court does the same. source
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15 Nov 2009 23:12

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Politics: Max Headroom: Spinning the NYC-based 9/11 terror trial

  • A spirited defense Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her work cut out for her in defending having the 9/11 terror trial in NYC. For the most part, her points make sense, even if they annoy Rudy Giuliani.

  • Gitmo like Disneyland?Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra perhaps misspoke when he referred to Guantanamo Bay as “a great place.” Hear that? It’s an instant soundbite for his Democratic challenger in 2010!

  • Get yo popcorn ready!Tomorrow promises to be some awesome TV for red-meat-eating conservatives, as Lou Dobbs brings the anti-immigration train (choo choo) to “The O’Reilly Factor.” Here’s the ad.

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04 Nov 2009 20:48

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Politics: Lindsey Graham: Obama didn’t do the hard stuff to close Gitmo

  • 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 administration’s handling of the Guantanamo Bay closing, noting the lack of prosecution of terrorism suspects which would make a closing possible. Graham, by the way, supported Obama’s plan. In response, the White House says the Bush administration left them with a lot of work to do. More than 200 cases for 200 inmates need to be sorted out. • source
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10 Sep 2009 11:19

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World: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed looks less disheveled in this photo

In 2003, the 9/11 mastermind looked like this. In 2009, we replaced him with an Osama bin Laden lookalike. See if you can tell the difference. source
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30 Jul 2009 14:29

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World: One of Guantanamo’s youngest prisoners likely to return to Afghanistan

  • 2002 the year Mohammed Jawad allegedly threw a grenade that injured two American soldiers in Kabul. He has been held illegally in Guantanamo ever since
  • 12-17 his age at the time of the attack varies depending on who you talk to, but everyone agrees his is one of the youngest detainees at the prison. A judge just ordered his release source
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21 Jul 2009 10:20

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U.S., World: Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo in one year? Not so easy

Having extended a deadline for his Guantanamo task force to make a final report, Obama’s plan to close the prison camp in a year looks more unlikely. source
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02 Jun 2009 23:02

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Tech, U.S.: Get ready for the Guantanamo video game that will piss you off

  • The British company behind this game claims to have gotten lots of hate mail for this game, where a Guantanamo detainee rebels and starts killing his captors. Noooo, really? We have no clue why “Rendition: Guantanamo” would split public opinion so passionately. source
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01 Jun 2009 22:29

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U.S.: Poll: Dick Cheney won the public mindshare on Guantanamo

  • 2:1 the rate which USA Today/Gallup poll respondents preferred keeping the detention camp open
  • 3:1 the rate which respondents disliked the idea of putting detained terrorists in their home states source
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23 May 2009 19:04

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Politics, U.S.: The Republicans finally have a wedge issue: Guantanamo Bay

  • Where are we going to send them? That decision I would have made before I’d announced the closure.
  • Sen. John McCain • Who may have lost the election but was 100% correct on the Guantanamo Bay closure when he said this during a Fox news interview back in January, days before the inauguration. Four months later, Barack Obama’s facing dissent on Guantanamo Bay from his own party. Now, if only the Republicans can translate winning on this one issue to all of their other problems, they may have a chance of being relevant again. • source
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22 May 2009 11:04

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Politics, U.S.: Robert Gates weighs in on the Guantanamo debate

  • The truth is, it’s probably one of the finest prisons in the world today. But it has a taint.
  • Defense Secretary Robert Gates • Who says that, due to a reputation that precedes it, Guantanamo is no longer worth keeping. “The name itself is a condemnation,” he told NBC’s “Today” show. • source
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