tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/26/2009
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Republicans have already settled on a five-letter messaging counter-attack to President Obama's plan to shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year: NIMBY. Within the past few days, John McCain and Karl Rove have helped reinforce the perception that Guantanamo detainees could not be moved ...
thinkprogress.org - 1/26/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Since President Obama’s announcement last week that he
would shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center within...
on year, Fox News has done its best to frighten its viewers about the rule: SEAN HANNITY : That’s somewhat frightening, ...
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Fox Shows Photos Of Muslim Men: ‘Would You Want A Guy ...
abcnews.go.com - 1/22/2009
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In this photo, reviewed by the US Military,
an American flag flies, with an old air-traffic control...
tower from a closed-down airport pictured in the background, at Camp Justice, the location of the US Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the ...
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Obama to Order Gitmo Shut Down
gallup.com - 1/22/2009
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gallup.com —
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With President Barack Obama already
taking action relating to the U.S. prison Guantanamo Bay...
on his first full day in office, Americans are sending no clear mandate on the issue. Slightly more think the United States should not ...
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Americans Send No Clear Mandate on Guantanamo Bay
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NIMBY
Political Animal —
... " about detaining suspects on American soil. John McCain told Fox News yesterday, "I don't know of a state in America that wants them in their state. You think Yucca Mountain is a NIMBY problem? Wait till you see this one." Elana Schor reports that the most likely facility is the military's maximum-security prison in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas -- which, by the way, is where Candidate McCain wanted to send the detainees when he endorsed closing Gitmo -- but that's facing resistance, too. Sen. Sam Brownback (R) and three House Republicans are pushing a measure that would prohibit ...
What's McCain Smoking Watch
Talking Points Memo —
... Does John McCain really think Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to break out of the Supermax facility in Colorado, if that's where he ends up getting sentenced to serve a life term? Or Fort Leavenworth? ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 27, 2009
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BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Listening to the Repuglicans yesterday, lament about closing "Gitmo", you'd think that all the detainees were going to be released into American society forthwith! The Repuglicans are again using the Bush tactic of instilling fear and loathing in an effort to discredit closing a denigrating, very negative mark on America's reputation! Frankly, I'm with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night when he said he's comfortable with incarcerating the detainees in the same prisons that house a man who claims to have taken a bite out of the victim's ...
Losing the Moral High Ground
Commondreams.org Views —
... is likely to take in a number of former detainees. Through all the diplomatic wrangling, the sad fact remains that innocent men, unjustly detained and often tortured, wallow in America's off-shore gulag. As the administration courts more countries to serve as post-war-on-terror-detention way stations, it dodges a fight with Congress over welcoming some of these men into the United States. The administration has chosen to play international matchmaker instead of insisting that these men deserve to see the best of America, after experiencing the worst of America for all these ...
Frida Berrigan: Losing the Moral High Ground
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As the administration courts more countries to serve as post-war-on-terror-detention way stations, it dodges a fight with Congress over welcoming some of these men into the United States. The administration has chosen to play international matchmaker instead of insisting that these men deserve to see the best of America, after experiencing the worst of America for all these years. The lamp beside the golden door has gone dim. Fearful of jeopardizing potential Republican support for its domestic agenda, and taken by surprise by the hysteria over the detainees' fate, the ...
Losing the Moral High Ground
Antiwar.com Original —
... is likely to take in a number of former detainees. Through all the diplomatic wrangling, the sad fact remains that innocent men, unjustly detained and often tortured, wallow in America’s off-shore gulag. As the administration courts more countries to serve as post-war-on-terror-detention way stations, it dodges a fight with Congress over welcoming some of these men into the United States. The administration has chosen to play international matchmaker instead of insisting that these men deserve to see the best of America, after experiencing the worst of America for all these ...
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the-reaction.blogspot.com 1/24/2009 — By Michael J.W. Stickings It's gotta be this one, right? Obama Starts Reversing Bush Policies And what a start it has been: President Obama moved swiftly yesterday to begin rolling back eight years of his predecessor's policies, ordering ...
Sebelius says no Guantanamo detainees in Kansas | State
kansas.com 1/22/2009 — Associated Press TOPEKA - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that she opposes any effort to move about 250 suspected terrorists being housed at Guantanamo Bay to Kansas and calls the entire detainee process "a huge black eye" for the United States. ...
What's next for Guantanamo Bay detainees? —
CNN Political Ticker 1/26/2009
(CNN) — With President Barack Obama limiting how and where detainees at Guantanamo Bay can be interrogated, some analysts are asking if intelligence agencies will be able to get the information they need to keep the country safe — and ...
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