kansas.com - 1/22/2009
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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. "We've got to discontinue the use of ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/26/2009
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Republicans have already settled on a five-letter messaging
counter-attack to President Obama's plan to shutter the Guantanamo...
Bay prison within a year: NIMBY. Within the past few days, John McCain and Karl Rove have helped reinforce the perception ...
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Not In My Backyard: The GOPers Complicating Obama's ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
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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 ...
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Obama seeks halt to Guantanamo trials - Yahoo! News
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Lacking The Constitution
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Chris Bodenner It's worth noting that the NIMBY response to closing Guantanamo is not a partisan affair. Here's Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat and close ally of Obama: "We've got to discontinue the use of Guantanamo Bay. ... I think it gives the world a real question about how America
values our democratic principles. It seems to violate everything our
Founding Fathers said in the first place." Yet, in the same sitting: "I don't have to want them
in Kansas. Closing Guantanamo ...
Democrat Wants Guantanamo Bay Closed, But Would Prefer The Prisoners Not Be Sent To Her State
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... Here’s Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat and close ally of Obama, talking about her desire to see the terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay closed: ...
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Obama signs executive order to close Gitmo —
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