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Breaking News: Abuse of Gitmo Detainees Skyrockets Under Obama
Wizbang — This is just breaking from Reuters . Keep in mind the accusations come from a human rights lawyer who undoubtedly has motive for shutting down Gitmo, and the report just released a few days ago that says ...

REUTERS: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama. You know, it may just be me but it seems …
Instapundit — ... REUTERS: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama. You know, it may just be me but it seems that Reuters is being a lot more negative toward Obama than I would have expected. ...

Gitmo Abuse Worsens, Say Detainee Lawyers
Newshoggers.com — ... Reuters reports complaints from Gitmo detainees via their lawyers that human rights abuses by guards at the camp have escalated since President Obama was elected and carried through on his campaign promise to order Gitmo closed. ...

Has Obama’s Election Made “Abuses” At GTMO Worse?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Now, there are two ways to read a report like this one: Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in” before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees. Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are ...

Gitmo Now
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Disturbing reports of prison guards, knowing that their opportunity for IRFing, beating, degrading and abusing inmates is coming to an end, are increasing abuses. The Pentagon's self-exoneration on the matter is, of course, ludicrous. I cannot confirm the accounts but I should say I fear the worst. Gitmo was created as a torture lab - and in the end, the guards who are part of that system behave accordingly. ...

BlondeSense — (From a friend) It looks as though Banksters and other financial opportunists aren't the only ones taking advantage of the time between now and when the new administration decides to get tough (or is that IF it decides?) Exclusive: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama An excerpt: LONDON (Reuters) - Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees. Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, ...

The Daily Five: A Stress Test Transparency Problem
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... it can meet the 2012 cargo screening deadline. .... Surpreme Court gives government latitude to place private monuments in public spaces, even if they're religious in nature. .... Abuse at Gitmo is worse since Obama took office, according to detainee lawyers. The guards are getting their last jollies in.... ...

Holder: U.S. Still Determined to Close Gitmo
Political Radar — ... in the things that the President spoke about when he signed the executive order and is consistent with my testimony during my confirmation hearing." Holder traveled to the facility with the executive team leader of the Guantanamo review Matthew Olsen and other senior lawyers at the Justice Department. While at the facility, the attorney general met with military lawyers and guards and reviewed the charges and case histories of the detainees being held there. Asked to respond to a Reuters report that some abuse at Guantanamo has taken place since President Obama has ordered ...

Remainders: Volcanos
Ben Smith's Blog — ... and spending cuts. William Kristol warns his party. Step 1 in the GOP's recovery: create a website Biden may not be familiar with the website number. Log Cabin GOPers respond to Steele. Krugman thinks Jindal's an odd guy to mock colcano monitoring. Napolitano keeps the word "terror" out of her congressional testimony. Coleman's preferred ballots take a beating in court. Guantanamo abuses increase as guards "get their kicks in." Obama's ...

Holder: Gitmo Well-Run, Professional
Weekly Standard Blog — ... This seems to cut down the Reuters report in which a lawyer for Gitmo detainees, citing detainee claims, alleged that mistreatment at Gitmo has increased since Obama's election. But more to the point: If Gitmo is well-run and professional, why does Obama want to close it down and move the prisoners to U.S. soil? ...

Holder on Gitmo: Nuetral Leaning Positive
Weekly Standard Blog — AG Eric Holder: "I did not witness any mistreatment of prisoners. I think, to the contrary, what I saw was a very conscious attempt by these guards to conduct themselves in an appropriate way....It does not in any way decrease our determination to close the facility, even though as I said it is being well-run now," he said. Lawyer for terrorists: "According to my clients, there has been a ramping up in abuse since President Obama was inaugurated," said Ghappour, a British-American lawyer with ...

WAR: Has Obama's Election Made "Abuses" At GTMO Worse?
Baseball Crank — Now, there are two ways to read a report like this one: Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees. Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger ...

Links for 2009-02-25 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... shed some light on it. It began with the Schwarzenegger administration's assertion that the state had a $42 billion budget deficit – the difference between revenue and projected spending – during the remainder of the 2008-09 fiscal year and all of the 2009-10 year. While many in the Capitol and in journalism accepted that figure, The Bee and some others opted for $40 billion, because the additional $2 billion represented the desire for a $2 billion emergency reserve. Shocker: Guantanamo abuse has worsened since Obama Became President Abuse of prisoners ...

links for 2009-02-26
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama RobertByrd) Shocker: Guantanamo abuse has worsened since Obama Became President Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their ...

America Does Not Torture? Detainee Abuse Up since November Election
Firedoglake — Georgetown law Professor Jonathan Turly has been saying for a while now that President Obama would have only a short period of time to initiate investigations for war crimes before Obama himself became complicit, essentially as an accessory after the fact, for failure to uphold the rule of ...

Torture is Wrong
Mudville Gazette — Tom Ricks says he thinks "more than ever that we need a truth and reconciliation commission -- not to punish the low-level guys who inflicted torture, but to set the record straight on who thought it was a good idea to make the use of torture U.S. national policy." I respond: Reuters: Exclusive: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama In fairness, that's a purposefully sensationalist headline. The lawyer in question even acknowledges that the abuses aren't administration policy, ...

The Still-Growing NPR 'Torture' Controversy
Commondreams.org Views — ... , there is ample evidence that very serious abuse is still occurring in America's detention facilities, including at Guantanamo (all of which confirmed similar reports from ...