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Military to Obama: “How do you like our middle finger?”
I heard this on Rachel last night, but CNN has the story: A military judge Thursday refused to delay proceedings against the accused mastermind of the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole despite President Obama’s call for a temporary halt to trials of suspected terrorists. Obama ordered a ...
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The Sideshow — This is actually a bit scary - a military judge has essentially given the finger to Obama, ignoring his order to halt the illegal military trials of the kidnap victims at Guantanamo. Military judges, you recall, are not actually a part of the civilian system, but of the military - that is, Obama rally is their commander-in-chief. ...

Come Saturday Morning: Seven Days in January?
Firedoglake — ... It's all coming to mind to me because of this particular story (CNN and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, via my co-blogger Charles at Mercury Rising) : ...

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