politics.theatlantic.com - 4/9/2009
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A smart observer outside of government makes the following the point about the forthcoming trials of the 14 so-called "high value detainees" being held at Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. government. Some of those detainees were tortured -- put through what Attorney General Eric Holder calls ...
blogs.wsj.com - 4/5/2009
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Evan Perez reports on the Justice Department. Detainees
being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
may be prohibited from release in the United States under a 2005 law, according to a Republican senator who is raising the issue with the ...
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Senator Says 2005 Law Prohibits U.S. Release of Gitmo ...
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The Gitmo Fourteen
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Marc believes that the government can convict most high value detainees without evidence obtained from torture: Reporters with better sources than I might want to see if they can figure out (a) the number of detainees the DOJ believes were tortured and b) of those who were tortured, those for whom the government has little other evidence. I suspect that there are very few HVTs who fit into both categories. Of course, if the government's not confident it can try these folks, what will become of them? I'm not sure the Obama administration knows at this ...
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