blog.aclu.org - 1/26/2009
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Last night, Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, was on The Rachel Maddow Show talking about President Obama's three executive orders and torture policy going forward.
Andy Worthington, who just guest-posted on the ACLU blog on inauguration day about the Guantánamo ...
experts.foreignpolicy.com - 1/22/2009
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experts.foreignpolicy.com —
Closing Gitmo is the right decision; now the
really hard work starts. by Matthew Waxman Today, U.S.
President Barack Obama suspended military commissions at the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and it is widely expected ...
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Closing Guantanamo is way harder than you think
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/29/2009
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
There's a lot to agree with in Peter
Beinart's piece about Obama's quest to "end" the culture
wars - particularly his point that as far as style and symbolism goes, a black liberal may be better-positioned than a white liberal to build the kind of ...
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Ending or Winning?
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... interesting but ultimately irrelevant if illegally detained prisoners show up later in a battlefield---what matters is following the Geneva Convention, which we’re not doing. If we can’t fight this war according to principles we’ve signed on to, then the question of who is a terrorist becomes very ambiguous indeed. (In other words, we’re a rogue nation, therefore state terrorists.) And while Obama is a big improvement over the Bush administration, ...
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