washingtonpost.com - 11/15/2008
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The Associated Press Sunday, June 24, 2007; 8:21 PM SAN ANTONIO -- Barack Obama told a Texas crowd on Sunday that he wants the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee facility closed _ a step the Bush administration is considering. The Democratic presidential hopeful pledged to work side-by-side with the ...
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Going backwards on indefinite detention, too?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... You can’t? That’s all we’ve heard from the close-Gitmo crowd for the last seven years. Indefinite detention supposedly violates American values, we’re losing the war if we adapt to the threat against us, blah blah blah. Certainly Barack Obama never gave any indication of nuanced thinking along the lines of indefinite detention during the last two years while campaigning for the presidency. In fact, Obama made the absolutist case that Cole now belatedly rejects in June 2007 :“While we’re at it,” he said, “we’re going to close Guantanamo. And we’re going to restore habeas ...
Obama’s Change is More of the Same: Reversal on Gitmo?
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... That’s all we’ve heard from the close-Gitmo crowd for the last seven years. Indefinite detention supposedly violates American values, we’re losing the war if we adapt to the threat against us, blah blah blah. Certainly Barack Obama never gave any indication of nuanced thinking along the lines of indefinite detention during the last two years while campaigning for the presidency. In fact, Obama made the absolutist case that Cole now belatedly rejects in June 2007: “While we’re at it,” he said, “we’re going to close Guantanamo. And we’re going to restore habeas corpus. … We’re ...
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