boomantribune.com - 1/14/2009
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As this Peter Finn piece in the Washington Post makes clear, the state of evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees is so sad that it is beyond pathetic. We probably can't convict more than a handful of them, and most of them probably don't even deserve to be prosecuted. The Pentagon says that ...
npr.org - 1/17/2009
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Commentary NPR.org , January 14, 2009 Susan J.
Crawford was general counsel for the U.S. Army in...
the Reagan administration and the Pentagon inspector general under Dick Cheney in the first Bush administration. She went on to be chief judge of the ...
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Investigating Bush's 'War On Terror'
1115.org - 1/16/2009
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Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon— who we
last wrote about on November 21, 2008, when he...
ordered the Bush administration to release five Algerian natives who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years, ruling that there was ...
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Oops! Child Terrorist Is Not A Terrorist, After all!
washingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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Commission Proceedings May Run Against Obama's Wishes By
Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 20,...
2008; The Defense Department announced yesterday that it would proceed with the capital trial of the alleged planner of the 2000 ...
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Military to Try USS Cole Suspect
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1/14: Is Tim In Trouble?
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... to deal with the Guantanamo prisoners: BooMan is furious at the Bush admin. for creating this situation in the first place: "We are going to have to release almost everyone at Guantanamo because we can't successfully prosecute them. But many of them could have and should have been prosecuted. A few of them are seriously dangerous criminals, and some of them were directly involved in the 9/11 plot. Some people on the right will kick and scream about releasing even the innocent, let alone the guilty. But what are we supposed to do? The people to be angry with are the ...
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