youtube.com - 5/19/2009
—
Recorded on February 2, 2009 from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Senator Inhofe leads a Congressional Delegation tour of GITMO and discusses the need to keep it open....
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/21/2009
—
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller is now
casting doubt on the claim in her front page...
story today, pounced on by the right and quickly picked up on cable, that one in seven detainees released from Guantanamo "returned to terrorism or ...
(more)
NYT Reporter: Maybe 1 In 7 Detainees Didn't "Return" To ...
defenselink.mil - 5/18/2009
—
defenselink.mil —
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Feb. 18, 2005
In every case, enemy combatants held here receive...
medical care that is "as good as or better than anything we would offer our own soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines," the general in charge of the ...
(more)
DefenseLink News Article: Guantanamo Detainees Receiving ...
latimes.com - 5/21/2009
—
latimes.com —
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, at a U.S.
military base in Cuba, has been used to hold...
suspects that the U.S. thinks were involved with terrorists. Since 2001, an estimated 775 prisoners have moved through the facility, informally known as Gitmo. ...
(more)
Torture and terrorism: Q & A on Guantanamo - Los Angeles ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
Surprise: Senate Dems cancel funding to close Gitmo
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Surprise: Senate Dems cancel funding to close Gitmo posted at 1:38 pm on May 19, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Just like the House did a week ago. I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t grasp the politics of this initially because I didn’t think they’d cave so quickly to the pro-Gitmo side; after watching them cave on waterboarding after 9/11 and then the Iraq war, I should have known they’d buckle once another tough security decision landed on their desks. They still want to close it — eventually , just like Jim Webb . They’re just suddenly wary of having hardcore terrorists in ...
Keep It Open: Senate Dems Destroy Obama’s Plans To Close Gitmo - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Fox News:
Senate Democrats threw cold water on President Obama’s plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center Tuesday, pulling money for the closure from a $91 billion war spending request and publicly opposing the transfer of any detainees to U.S. soil.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats not only oppose the release of detainees into the United States but also oppose the transfer of detainees to U.S. prisons.
“We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States,” he said, adding: “Part of what we don’t want is for them to be put in prisons in the United ...
Related Content
What Are The Real US Aims In “Bringing Freedom” To Cuba?
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 4/15/2009 — On Wednesday afternoon author Reese Erlich ( Dateline Havana ) will be live-blogging at Firedoglake about his new book and about the blowback from Cuba-American affairs on domestic U.S. politics. There's a real battle brewing right now between the ...
Barack Obama on changes to U.S. policies toward Cuba -- full text
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/14/2009 —
While the kids rolled Easter eggs in the White House lawn, President Barack Obama unveiled today another dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy, which he called "Reaching out to the Cuban people." Last week, as The Ticket ...
Images from the prison at Guantanamo Bay
sacbee.com 6/2/2009 — WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rare, bipartisan defeat for President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in 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....
Obama Is Very Slow To Reform U.S. Relations With Cuba
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 6/3/2009 — The newly elected president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, was inaugurated Monday and immediately re-established diplomatic relations with Cuba. The El Salvadorean people should be very proud of him. "It is an event that means that El Salvador should be on a par with the times and overcome ...
Change on Cuba Policy
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/14/2009 —
Obama administration announced some steps today to begin moving our Cuba policy in a more sensible direction:
– Lift all restrictions on transactions related to the travel of family members to Cuba.
– Remove restrictions on ...
Cuba: Fantasy island for Orbitz?
faustasblog.com 5/10/2009 — As I have mentioned before, I’m under the distinct impression that the Obama administration will water-down the Cuban embargo to the point where it becomes meaningless.
Orbitz, the travel people, are looking ahead to booking some vacations when that happens:
Cuba: Fantasy island for ...
A break with the past on Cuba
washingtonmonthly.com 4/13/2009 — A BREAK WITH THE PAST ON CUBA.... President Obama was quite forthcoming during the campaign about how he would change a failed U.S. policy towards Cuba, breaking with decades of bipartisan support for an approach that obviously didn't work. Today,...
‘No progress’ at EU-Cuba meeting
faustasblog.com 5/12/2009 — In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern:
The Beeb is reporting ‘No progress’ at EU-Cuba meeting
The European Union has said it made no headway with Cuba on its human rights record, following talks in Brussels.
The comments were made by Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, who ...
Senate denies money to close Cuba prison —
Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday denied President Barack Obama the $80 million he sought to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay and senators will soon decide whether to also drop his request for more aid for the International ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
