obsidianwings.blogs.com - 1/13/2009
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by hilzoy From the AP : "President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office — and perhaps his first day — to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay , according to two presidential transition team advisers. It's unlikely the ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) Hours
after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama...
ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases. Military judges were ...
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Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
bostonherald.com - 1/14/2009
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bostonherald.com —
W ASHINGTON Terror suspects who have been held
but released from Guantanamo Bay are increasingly returning to...
the fight against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said today. Sixty-one detainees who have been released from the U.S. Navy ...
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Pentagon: Guantanamo detainees back to battlefield
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... FREEZING MY ASS OFF. Kid: (laughs) Man: (thinking to himself) Dear god, hurry the fuck up assholes! Before I fall and break my goddamn neck or worse, before the kid starts crying again.... 2. This video, otoh, is genuinely hilarious (warning: links to Pajamas Media). "Some of them are saying i'm going out of my way to make them dislike me, but i'm just being myself." Truer words were never spoken. Both links via ObWi, which also has two excellent front-page posts about closing Guantanamo that are well worth your time, by the ...
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... like others, insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters about such matters. He acknowledged that he relied on Pentagon assurances that the files were comprehensive and in order rather than reading them himself." Hmm. Incoming officials say there are no files. Some Bush administration ex-officials agree, but others say that there are files, and that the Obama administration is just making excuses. Who is right? As it happens, a couple of weeks ago, I wrote that deciding what to do with individual detainees at Guantanamo "will require going ...
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Today, U.S. President Barack Obama suspended military commissions at the
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Obama is apparently sticking to his Sunday claim that it could take more than 100 days to shutter America's Shame. But after an outcry from civil liberties groups, human rights advocates and many of his own supporters he is now also saying (or ...
Bush, Obama teams hold disaster drill —
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Senior officials in the Bush administration and members of President-elect Barack Obama's staff teamed up at the White House Tuesday for a rehearsal of how to handle a hypothetical terrorist attack on an American city.
Obama pushes Senate Democrats on stimulus, bailout —
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