thinkprogress.org - 11/17/2008
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In recent weeks, there has been rampant media speculation that President Barack Obama would back off his campaign pledges to end torture.
The Wall Street Journal recently wrote, “President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration ...
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Obama tells CBS he will close Gitmo
BlondeSense —
Barack Obama was on 60 Minutes last night and assures us that he intends to close Guantanamo and will make sure that America doesn't torture . Hallelujah! CBS: There are a number of different things you can do early on pertaining to executive orders. OBAMA: Right. CBS: One of them is to shut down Guantanamo Bay. Another is to change interrogation methods that are used by U.S. troops. Are those things that you plan to take early action on? OBAMA: Yes. I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America ...
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Daily Kos —
... tribunals and return the men at Guantanamo to their home countries or, for those needing resettlement or asylum, to a safe third country. We hope a new administration makes restoring the lives of hundreds of men at Guantanamo who have never been charged with any crime or tried in a court of law a top priority. Guantánamo Bay is a failure by every measure and must be closed immediately. That is likely to happen. Here's what President-elect Obama had to say on 60 Minutes last Sunday: ...
Leahy: ?Torture will be a major issue?; ?All that?s going to be reviewed.?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... During a press conference today, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, echoed President-elect Obama’s vow to end torture and pledged to continue investigating the Bush administration’s torture policies. “All that is going to be reviewed,” he said: Q: Do you think Congress should continue to seek a final reckoning of what happened […] During a press conference today, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, echoed President-elect Obama’s vow to end torture and pledged to continue investigating the Bush ...
Hullabaloo —
... that Bush used, which was clearly calibrated to conform with the notion that "torture" was a matter of definition, which his administration defined as being something other than the practices they approved? It's a strange phrase, which sounds as though he's saying that the United States shouldn't torture, when he's actually saying that it hasn't tortured. And that's just not true. I would chalk it up to mangled grammar and wouldn't mention it if it had only happened once, but he said it on 60 Minutes too: I have said repeatedly that I intend to close ...
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