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A new report questions "suicides" at GuantanamoThe problem, however, is that the Obama DOJ has been using every Bush tactic -- and inventing whole new ones -- to block the lawsuit from proceeding. As The Washington Independent's Daphne Eviatar detailed in October, "the Obama administration has surprisingly endorsed the same legal positions ...
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Gitmo Politics in Obama's White House | Mother JonesLiberals have not done enough public wrestling with Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf's Time article on the ouster of White House counsel Gregory Craig. Perhaps that's because they don't want to deal with the article's troubling implications. As Kevin explains, Craig was "the White House ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comGreg Craig and Obama's worsening civil liberties record
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comThe administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials
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Trying Sept. 11 Suspects In U.S. A Political Gamble : NPRTrying Sept. 11 Suspects In U.S. A Political Gamble A A November 18, 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday stoutly defended his decision to try the Sept. 11 conspirators in U.S. federal court as driven by evidence, not politics. During his appearance before the Senate Judiciary ...
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Terrorism - Salon.comThe British journalist Johann Hari has written an absolutely vital article for The Independent, examining a growing movement of former hardened Islamic militants who are now devoted to teaching a more moderate and less fundamentalist Islam. Hari focuses on understanding what motivates some ...
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OpEdNews - by Rob Kall: Guantanamo Action: Holder to try 5 in NYC, White House Counsel ResignsEric Holder is, as this is written, holding a press conference announcing that five Guantanamo prisoners will be tried in a NY federal court, asking for the death Penalty. (Ironic that NY state does not have a death penalty for criminals convicted in state courts.) This is good news that AG ...
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Key 9/11 Suspect to Be Tried in New York - NYTimes.comKey 9/11 Suspect to Be Tried in New York WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early on ...
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Anti-war activist's works banned at prison camps - Guantánamo - MiamiHerald.comAnti-war activist's works banned at prison camps Professor Noam Chomsky may be among America's most enduring anti-war activists. But the leftist intellectual's anthology of post 9/11 commentary is taboo at Guantánamo's prison camp library, which offers books and videos on Harry Potter, World ...
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CIA doctors face human experimentation claims | World news | guardian.co.ukDoctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) , a not-for-profit group that has ...
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