Obama Set to Revive Military Commissions
washingtonpost.com 5/9/2009 — Changes Would Boost Detainee Rights By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, May 9, 2009 The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would ...

Koh vs. Obama Administration on Military Commissions
corner.nationalreview.com 5/9/2009 — Today's Washington Post reports: "The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer terrorism suspects greater legal protections, government ...

Obama: Military Commissions "Appropriate," "Legitimate"
politics.theatlantic.com 5/18/2009 — The President's paper words today on the Department of Defense's new military commissions: Military commissions have a long tradition in the United States. They are appropriate for trying enemies who violate the laws of war, provided that they are ...

Military Commissions: You’re Not Rid Of Me
attackerman.firedoglake.com 5/15/2009 — Military commissions have a long tradition in the United States. They are appropriate for trying enemies who violate the laws of war, provided that they are properly structured and administered. In the past, I have supported the use of military ...

Campaigning, Obama said Bush's military commissions were "an enormous failure" and promised to "reject the Military Commissions Act."
althouse.blogspot.com 5/15/2009 — But — I've said it before, and I'll be saying it many more times — Obama is like Bush. He's keeping the commissions. Oh, yes, he's making a show of tossing in a little more process .... Must make it seem that he's not exactly like Bush... The new ...

Obama and the Revival of Flawed Military Commissions
talkleft.com 5/19/2009 — The ACLU tells President Obama that reviving the military commissions is like putting lipstick on a pig: "These military commissions are inherently illegitimate, unconstitutional and incapable of delivering outcomes we can trust. Tweaking the ...

Obama Appears Poised to Renew Military Commissions
washingtonindependent.com 5/14/2009 — Recent reports quoting anonymous officials within the Obama administration suggest the president is considering reviving the same military commissions that he called “an enormous failure” as a candidate and that were created by a law he voted against ...

WaPo confirms return of military commissions
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Obama Military Commissions Vision Takes Shape
washingtonindependent.com 7/8/2009 — [caption id="attachment_49967" align="alignnone" width="550" caption="David Kris and Jeh Johnson (Senate Judiciary Committee, Department of Defense)"][/caption] Obama administration officials laid out in their greatest detail thus far on Tuesday for ...

Obama's Commissions Statement
corner.nationalreview.com 5/16/2009 — President Obama's statement on the reinstatement of the military commissions is astounding. I've already weighed in (here) on how disingenuous it is of him, in order to rationalize resorting to that which he campaigned against, to pretend that his ...

Obama Set to Revive Military Commissions — Wash Post Obama Administration 5/9/2009
The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer suspected terrorists greater legal protections, government officials said.

Obama putting ‘symbolism over security,’ Bond says — CNN Political Ticker 5/9/2009
Sen. Kit Bond says President Obama is using a 'ready, fire, aim' strategy. (CNN) — Missouri Sen. Kit Bond said President Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a “dangerous case of putting symbolism over ...

Obama wants credit card overhaul — msnbc.com: Politics 5/9/2009
Send me a bill that stops credit card companies from taking advantage of consumers, and do it by month's end, President Barack Obama is demanding of Congress.

Cuban parliament president dismisses Obama (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 5/10/2009
AP - Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon dismissed President Barack Obama's recent overtures to Cuba and says the new U.S. administration's stance is a continuation of an illegal, unjustifiable and failed policy.

Scouring Obama’s Past for Clues on Judiciary — NYT > Politics 5/9/2009
In the Senate, Barack Obama assembled a nearly uniformly liberal voting record on judges, contradicting his pragmatism as a law professor.