thinkprogress.org - 1/19/2009
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Romney: ‘We Ought To Double Guantanamo’ As Crooks and Liars noted , former governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) said tonight that instead of shutting the prison at Guantanamo Bay, “we ought to double Guantanamo,” in part so that detainees “don’t get access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil.” ...
gallup.com - 1/22/2009
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gallup.com —
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With President Barack Obama already
taking action relating to the U.S. prison Guantanamo Bay...
on his first full day in office, Americans are sending no clear mandate on the issue. Slightly more think the United States should not ...
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Americans Send No Clear Mandate on Guantanamo Bay
washingtonindependent.com - 1/23/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW...
AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES By the ...
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Executive Order: Guantanamo Closure and Review
kansas.com - 1/22/2009
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kansas.com —
Associated Press TOPEKA - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said
Wednesday that she opposes any effort to move about...
250 suspected terrorists being housed at Guantanamo Bay to Kansas and calls the entire detainee process "a huge black eye" for the United States. ...
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Sebelius says no Guantanamo detainees in Kansas | State
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Farewell to Bush: Good Riddance
Politics Daily —
... , who has won exactly one election in his life, now routinely beats the president to the comedic punch. Double Guantanamo Bay? Why didn't Dubya think of that?! ...
Boehner Recycles GOP's "Club Gitmo" Talking Point
Crooks and Liars —
... in which he and Mitt Romney ("My view is we ought to double Guantanamo") battled to heap praise on Guantanamo, Huckabee declared that prisoners in his state wished they had it so good. After announcing in June 2007 that "most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo," Huckabee that December fawned over the creature comforts at Gitmo: ...
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boomantribune.com 1/13/2009 — The New York Times reports that Barack Obama is likely to sign an executive order calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility on his first day in office. In addition, they report that the Obama Team is likely to immediately scrap the ...
Greetings from Guantanamo Bay
thetalkingdog.com 2/14/2009 — Recent TD interview subject Almerindo Ojeda of the Guantanamo Testimonials Project hits it out of the park with his own interview of former GTMO prison guard Army Specialist Brandon Neely....
Romney is Already Running
politicalwire.com 12/8/2008 — Mitt Romney "is laying the groundwork for a possible White House campaign in 2012, hiring a team of staff members and consultants with money from a fund-raising committee he established with the ostensible purpose of supporting other GOP candidates," ...
No Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Files
poligazette.com 1/25/2009 — The Washington Post reports that the Barack Obama administration has run into a major problem: there are no comprehensive files about Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Team Obama searched for these files in order to assess the danger posed by every ...
Romney writes checks to House Republicans
politico.com 2/23/2009 — How fully is Mitt Romney running for the GOP nomination in 2012?
First the condo , now this:
Former Governor Mitt Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC today sent $1,000 checks to a group of House Republicans targeted by the ...
Romney on the Hill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/15/2009 — This is his stimulus testimony today. NRO readers got a preview of it about a month ago.
I Don't Endorse Romney
corner.nationalreview.com 12/12/2008 — Jim Geraghty and others have advocated the idea of Mitt Romney assuming a "car czar" role. I remain a Romney fan for many reasons; one of them: he's a capitalist and a good one at that. If one of the Big Three called him up and asked him to get in its ...
Romney, Whitman on the Hill
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 1/15/2009 — WASHINGTON (CNN) – Mitt Romney. Meg Whitman.
Sounds like a flashback to the 2008 presidential campaign. But I'm not living in the past. I'm talking about the present day.
Both Romney and Whitman are scheduled to speak today at a hearing ...
Marc Ambinder: "Czar Romney?"
dailykos.com 2/4/2009 — This has got to be crazy talk : President Obama could do worse. Romney has a bad reputation among Congressional Democrats, so I can't imagine they'd cotton to this. In fact, it's highly unlikely. But what Romney, in a bipartisan fashion, was able ...
Voices from Guantanamo Bay
airamerica.com 2/6/2009 — Voices from Guantanamo Bay
Actors and Poets Group, a New York-based nonprofit theater company, will present live excerpts from their current production: Voices From Guantánamo, a theatrical adaptation of poetry written by detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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