Guantánamo’s Last Terror Trial
truthdig.com 2/8/2009 — The legacy of terror trials at Guantánamo Bay has potentially come to an end, as a judge has dropped the charges for the last case at the naval base in accord with President Obama’s executive order to halt all court proceedings at ...

Obama drops 'enemy combatant' label
swamppolitics.com 3/14/2009 — by Frank James The Obama Administration has jettisoned yet another important vestige of the Bush Administration. The Justice Department announced today that it will no longer use the term "enemy combatant" to describe detainees held at ...

The Associated Press: Obama admin. to end use of term 'enemy combatant'
google.com 3/13/2009 — 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it will no longer use the term to justify ...

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....

Dennis Miller On "Enemy Combatants"
thehopeforamerica.com 3/17/2009 — The comedian talks about Obama dropping the term "enemy combatants" for... enemy combatants

Miss Universe Visits Guantánamo Bay
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com 3/30/2009 — The reigning Miss Universe writes on her blog that she had a lovely time visiting Guantánamo Bay last week.

Bush: ‘We do not torture’ terror suspects - Security- msnbc.com
msnbc.msn.com 1/14/2009 — PANAMA CITY, Panama - President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. “We do not torture,” Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas. Bush supported an ...

We need a new name for the 'War on Terror'
directorblue.blogspot.com 4/1/2009 — Don't you feel safer already?U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday the Obama administration had dropped "war on terror" from its lexicon, rhetoric former President George W. Bush used to justify many of his actions."The (Obama) administration has stopped using the phrase and I ...

“And it does not employ the phrase ‘enemy combatant’”
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 3/16/2009 — In DOJ's press release on Obama's rejection today of the term "enemy combatant," that sentence appears at the end of the first paragraph: In a filing today with the federal District Court for the District of Columbia, the Department of ...

9/11 suspects ask to make 'confessions' at Gitmo - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 12/8/2008 — GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks told a military judge Monday that they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay , setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible ...

U.S. reverses policy, drops 'enemy combatant' term — CNN Political Ticker 3/13/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — In a dramatic break with the Bush administration, the Justice Department on Friday announced it is doing away with the designation of "enemy combatant," which allowed the United States to hold suspected terrorists at length ...

Reform, don't ban, earmarks (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/14/2009
Politico - I was talking to a Republican mayor of a fairly large city in the southern part of the United States, and the subject of earmarks came up. He was a big fan. “It is a lot easier for me to get the attention of my local congressman than ...

Building Coalitions, One Issue at a Time — NYT > Politics 3/14/2009
President Obama’s complex blend of ideas and instincts may force him to build different legislative coalitions depending on the issue, a tricky challenge given the scope of his ambition. >

Economic View: Finding Messages in a Blueprint — NYT > Politics 3/14/2009
Four lessons we can learn about President Obama and his economic team from the budget proposal released late last month. >

Obama Gives Reassurances on U.S. Debt — NYT > Politics 3/15/2009
The president’s comments came a day after China’s prime minister expressed worries about the safety of Beijing’s $1 trillion investment in American debt. >