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Military to Try USS Cole Suspect
Commission Proceedings May Run Against Obama's Wishes By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 20, 2008; The Defense Department announced yesterday that it would proceed with the capital trial of the alleged planner of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole , signaling its intent ...
Bush's Real 9/11 Record
Bush's Real 9/11 Record
boomantribune.com — As this Peter Finn piece in the Washington Post makes clear, the state of evidence against Guantanamo... Bay detainees is so sad that it is beyond pathetic. We probably can't convict more than a handful of them, and most of them probably don't even ... (more) Bush's Real 9/11 Record
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Andy Worthington: The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... "We serve the sitting president and will continue to do so until the president-elect is inaugurated, at which time we will implement whatever policies are enacted by the next president," Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, explained last month. ...

The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Antiwar.com Original — ... observers have witnessed the Commissions go through the motions in the Bush administration's last days, like a preprogrammed machine, unaware that major changes are afoot, or, less charitably, like a decapitated chicken on its last round of the farmyard. "We serve the sitting president and will continue to do so until the president-elect is inaugurated, at which time we will implement whatever policies are enacted by the next president," Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, explained last month. An ignoble history T he Military Commissions have rarely attracted the ...

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