washingtonmonthly.com - 12/19/2008
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CLOSING GUANTANAMO.... Shortly after the election, Barack Obama spoke to "60 Minutes," and explained, "I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that." Dick Cheney told Rush Limbaugh this week that he...
abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008
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In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a
reflective Vice President Dick Cheney praised President-elect Barack Obama's...
national security team and admitted he's changed during his time in office. In his first exit interview and first television ...
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Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed
latimes.com - 12/16/2008
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His comments come on the heels of disclosures
by a Senate committee showing that high-level officials in...
the Bush administration were intimately involved in reviewing and approving interrogation methods that have since been explicitly outlawed and ...
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Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics - ...
mcclatchydc.com - 12/19/2008
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WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is drawing up
plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison in...
anticipation that one of President-elect Barack Obama's first acts will be ordering the closure of the detention center associated with the ...
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Gates orders development of plans to close Guantanamo
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Gitmo: Two Years Is Too Long
Newshoggers.com —
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Obama is apparently preparing to carry through on his campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and Bob Gates has instructed the Pentagon to draw up contingency plans for doing so. Steve Benen and Kevin Drum are both happy that Obama isn't backing away from his promise, and so am I. But the plan seems to involve closing Gitmo within two years, and that's too long.
It means that for two years detainees, many of them innocent of all charges as even the Bush administration nowadays has been forced to admit, ...
Gitmo: Two Years Is Too Long
Crooks and Liars —
Obama is apparently preparing to carry through on his campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and Bob Gates has instructed the Pentagon to draw up contingency plans for doing so (h/t Kat). Steve Benen and Kevin Drum are both happy that Obama isn't backing away from his promise, and so am I. But the plan seems to involve closing Gitmo within two years, and that's too long.
It means that for two years detainees, many of them innocent of all charges as even the Bush administration nowadays has been forced to admit, will ...
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