washingtonmonthly.com - 1/25/2009
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There Are No Files From the Washington Post: "President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming...
hotair.com - 2/1/2009
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hotair.com —
For the last seven years, the Left has
screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition ,...
in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country for interrogation. Never mind that the practice started in the Clinton ...
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Surprise! Obama expands renditions
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/23/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
From today's WaPo: President Obama yesterday eliminated the
most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism...
suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. ...
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So Much for Listening to Dick Cheney
washingtonpost.com - 1/25/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
Situation Complicates Prison's Closure By Karen DeYoung and
Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 25,...
2009; A05 President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray
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No Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Files
PoliGazette —
... It is interesting that the Bush administration believed it had the right to detain terrorism suspects indefinitely, without assembling a comprehensive file on them. The administration itself may not have known why specific individuals were detained, why they weren’t brought to justice, and why they posed a danger to the United States. ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
... The Washington Monthly: Incoming Obama officials say there are no files on Gitmo prisoners. Some Bush administration ex-officials agree, but others say that there are files, and that the Obama administration is just making excuses. Wonder who ...
Reading Comprehension, Anyone?
Comments from Left Field —
... It is interesting that the Bush administration believed it had the right to detain terrorism suspects indefinitely, without assembling a comprehensive file on them. The administration itself may not have known why specific individuals were detained, why they weren’t brought to justice, and why they posed a danger to the United States. ...
The Bush Administration: Worse than I Could Imagine
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... The Washington Monthly: Hmm. Incoming officials say there are no files. Some Bush administration ex-officials agree, but others say that there are files, and that the Obama administration is just making excuses. Who is right? ...
The Incompetence of Evil
Discourse.net —
Gitmo: There Are No Files.
The Bush people told us over and over that the people held at Gitmo were super-dangerous. That’s why they couldn’t release them, or even try them in the US. (Judges who reviewed selected cases in the main didn’t agree, but put that aside.)
Now we learn the farcical basis on which decisions to hold people were being made:
“President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at ...
No Files
Suburban Guerrilla —
See, I was just leaning back in my chair and I accidentally hit the “delete” button:
President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees — discovered that there were no comprehensive case files on many of them.
Instead, they found that information on ...
Guantanamo - What Next?
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Obama’s people supposedly “discovered” this problem when they came into office, but there had been public allegations of this sort of thing before. ...
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West Coast Plot
corner.nationalreview.com 1/27/2009 — Over at his Washington Post blog, Daniel Froomkin assails my Post oped and comments at NRO, declaring:
In a Washington Post op-ed yesterday, former Bush speechwriter Marc A. Thiessen made the outrageous and unsupported charge that banning Bush's ...
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 ...
WaPo: The War on Terror is Over
wizbangblog.com 1/23/2009 — I guess we can take that category off of the Wizbang category list as Barack Obama has determined that our enemies should no longer be pursued and has ended the...
Leading on Day One
mahablog.com 1/22/2009 — By now you’ve heard that President Obama has issued orders to close Guantanamo Bay. He had clearly said several times during the campaign and transition that he would do so. Nevertheless, no end of lefties who have been reading between the ...
From the "imagine if this were a conservative" files
betsyspage.blogspot.com 2/22/2009 — GayPatriot is having a lot of good schadenfreude fun with the story that just emerged that Democrat and liberal scold, Bill Moyers, used the FBI to investigate rumors that both opponents and co-workers were gay. (link via Instapundit) The Washington ...
There Are No Files, Part 2
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/25/2009 — by hilzoy This morning, I read this declaration in a GTMO case (pdf). It's very much worth reading: the author, LTC Darrel Vandeveld, is a member of the Reserve JAG Corps who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the lead prosecutor ...
John Yoo: hoping and praying not to go to jail..
atlargely.com 1/30/2009 — John "Loves Torture" Yoo is all upset - poor man - because he is not happy with President Obama. Penning a best-of-Bush-propaganda for the Wall Street Murdoch, Yoo writes the following (apparently his lawyer has not told him to shut up yet):
During ...
Obama Can't Review Gitmo Case Files: They Don't Exist
huffingtonpost.com 1/26/2009 — President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials -- ...
9/11 terror suspects defiant at Guantánamo hearing
miamiherald.com 1/22/2009 — Guards shackled 9/11 terror suspect Ramzi bin al Shibh to the courtroom floor and suspect Khalid Sheik Mohammed again said he welcomed death Monday as the U.S. government sought to press ahead with its showcase war crimes trial on the eve of Barack ...
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