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dailykos.com - 1/21/2009
Obama Seeks a Halt to Guantanamo Military Commissions
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As noweasels' recommended diary notes, just hours after being sworn in, President Obama requested a 120 day suspension in the military commissions trial pending this week. The instruction came in a motion filed with a military court in the case of five defendants accused of organizing the ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/21/2009
Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo

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Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) Hours after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama... ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases. Military judges were ... (more) Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News

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washingtonpost.com - 1/21/2009
Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo
— washingtonpost.com — Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 21, 2009; A02 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 20 -- In one... of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings ... (more) Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo

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Political Animal — ... The instruction came in a motion filed with a military court in the case of five defendants accused of organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The motion called for "a continuance of the proceedings" until May 20 so that "the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically." This is obviously an encouraging development, but as mcjoan explained , the president's authority here is limited. Obama ordered prosecutors to ...

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