hotair.com - 11/12/2008
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No matter which candidate won the election, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay for captured terrorists would have closed. Both Barack Obama and John McCain had pledged to shut down the controversial center, which received a deluge of criticism ever since it opened. However, now that Obama ...
stratfor.com - 11/7/2008
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Barack Obama has been elected president of the
United States by a large majority in the Electoral
College. The Democrats have dramatically increased their control of Congress, increasing the number of seats they hold in the House of Representatives ...
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Obama’s Challenge
michellemalkin.com - 11/13/2008
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ACLU Urge Obama to Close Gitmo
Stop The ACLU —
... Barack Obama would consider holding some suspects without charge on national security grounds. His transition team denied reports this week that it was contemplating some form of preventive detention backed by a new civilian national security court. The idea has been a staple of legal debates over the future of Guantanamo Bay for the past year, but Obama advisers believe it would meet fierce congressional resistance. There is no question that Obama will close Gitmo. The question is, then what? Besides, the point of military tribunals was to establish a system that protected ...
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huffingtonpost.com 11/10/2008 — WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close ...
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washingtonpost.com 11/15/2008 — 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 ...
Obama: Gitmo Will Take Time to Close
talkleft.com 1/11/2009 — During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he would close Guantanamo during his first 100 days in office. This morning, on ABC 's This Week with Stephanopoulos , he backtracked: "It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize," ...
A Rose By Any Other Name
newshoggers.com 11/10/2008 — By Cernig
The AP reports an officially unofficial leak from the Obama team that closing Gitmo is a priority for the new administration . Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be ...
Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in His First 100 Days
abcnews.go.com 1/11/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his first 100 days in office. "I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus ...
Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in First 100 Days
abcnews.go.com 1/11/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his first 100 days in office. "I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security ...
What Might Have Been
corner.nationalreview.com 11/3/2008 — In the end this campaign could have been a clear-cut and honest choice between two world views, unapologetically expressed. I think with McCain his conservative/centrist views and 30-year public life were pretty well known to the public. Like it or ...
Obama is Not Our Commander in Chief
salon.com 11/2/2008 — If you’re not on active status in the military, President-Elect Obama is not your commander in chief.
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U.S. general urges Obama not to cave to Russia —
Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite objections by Russia, the outgoing head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency urged President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to stick to the Bush administration's plans to place missile defenses in Eastern Europe.
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Experts Volunteer Policy Guidance —
Wash Post Obama Administration 11/13/2008
An influential assemblage of left-leaning policy experts and a coalition of 30 environmental organizations have weighed in with their vision for the Obama administration, adding to the burden of expectations facing the president-elect from Democratic ...
Bush to write book; Palin may steal limelight —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/12/2008
Republicans may have been voted out of power but they could dominate U.S. political bookshelves with memoirs by President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush among the possible coming attractions. Yet both could be outdone by Sarah Palin,
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