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1/2/2012 ACLU report card finds fault with Obama, rivals
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued "Liberty Watch 2012," its report card for presidential candidates on issues like surveillance, torture, gay rights and immigration. No one gets an A, including President Obama. Obama, the only Democrat among the 10 candidates rated, got a perfect score

four "torches"

on only one issue, allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, for his backing of the December 2010 law that repealed "don't ask, don't tell." But he received lower marks on immigration, abortion rights and "closing Guantanamo Bay and indefinite detention," where his one-torch rating was attributed to backtracking on a promise to shut the prison for suspected terrorists and his support for holding their trials in military commissions.

The highest overall rating went to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican-turned-Libertarian, who opposes the Patriot Act and

unlike Obama

supports the right of gays and lesbians to marry. Among the leading Republican candidates, libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul also got a higher score than Obama despite low ratings in several categories. The ACLU gave the Texas congressman high marks for opposing the Patriot Act and indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, condemning waterboarding and voting to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." But it criticized Paul's call for an end to "birthright citizenship" for children of illegal immigrants, his support of the law that denies federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples and his opposition to abortion. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 1/11/12                   0       9
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5/12/2011 Al Qaeda Could Try to Replicate Fukushima-type Meltdowns
A May 5 "intelligence brief" prepared by a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official at the Pacific Regional Information Clearinghouse (PacClear) in Hawaii, warned Al Qaeda might try to cause the meltdown of certain vulnerable nuclear power plants in the US and Europe by replicating the failure of the electric supply that pumped cooling water to the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The plant's primary and backup power supplies were knocked out by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March, resulting in partial meltdowns of the plant's reactors. Only a week after the intelligence brief was circulated, federal officials dispatched a security alert notifying US power plant operators to raise the level of their security awareness. According to the analysis in the “for official use only” intelligence brief, which was obtained by Homeland Security Today, “the earthquake and tsunami in Japan were ‘acts of nature,’ but a catastrophic nuclear reactor meltdown could potentially be engineered by Al Qaeda” by replicating the cascading loss of electric power that knocked out the Fukushima nuclear power plant’s ability to cool its reactors’ fuel rods, which led to the partial meltdowns of the reactors, causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. (Homeland Security Today)
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posted: 5/15/11                   0       7
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5/9/2011 10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax
Every indication clearly points to last Sunday’s raid being a manufactured ploy to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration

Merely a week after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, there is literally a deluge of evidence that clearly indicates the whole episode has been manufactured for political gain and to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration so that they can be easily manipulated in the run up to the 2012 election. Here are ten facts that prove the Bin Laden fable is a contrived hoax…. 1) Before last Sunday’s raid, every intelligence analyst, geopolitical commentator or head of state worth their salt was on record as stating that Osama Bin Laden was already dead, and that he probably died many years ago, from veteran CIA officer Robert Baer, to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to former FBI head of counterterrorism Dale Watson. In addition, back in 2002 Alex Jones was told directly by two separate high level sources that Bin Laden was already dead and that his death would be announced at the most politically opportune moment. Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under five different Presidents, serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under the Nixon, Ford and Carter, told the Alex Jones Show last week that Bin Laden died of marfan syndrome shortly after he was visited by CIA physicians at the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001. 2) The official narrative of how the raid unfolded completely collapsed within days of its announcement. First there had been a 40 minute shootout, then there was no shootout and just one man was armed, first Bin Laden was armed then he was not, first Bin Laden used his wife as a human shield and then he did not. First the compound was described as a “$1 million dollar mansion” then it turned out to be a rubbish-strewn dilapidated compound that was worth less than a quarter of that. Almost every single aspect of the official narrative has changed since Obama first described the raid last Sunday as the White House struggles to keep its story straight. (Prison Planet)
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posted: 5/12/11                   0       5
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4/25/2011 'Nuclear hellstorm' if bin Laden caught: 9/11 mastermind
The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe which will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed Monday. The terror group also planned to make a 9/11 style attack on London's Heathrow airport by crashing a hijacked airliner into one of the terminals, the files showed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators the terror group would detonate the nuclear device if the Al-Qaeda chief was captured or killed, according to the classified files released by the WikiLeaks website. Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 and is to be tried in a military court at the US naval base on Cuba over the attacks. (Agence France-Presse)
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posted: 5/9/11                   0       6
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4/25/2011 WikiLeaks releasing documents on Guantanamo
Thousands of pages outline the U.S. prison operation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with details on the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind and others. The White House condemns the leak.

Most of those remaining at the Guantanamo Bay military prison are considered "high-risk" detainees who if released would pose grave threats to the U.S. and its allies, as did a third of those set free earlier, according to thousands of pages of classified documents being made public by WikiLeaks. Release of the more than 700 separate documents dealing with the prison, opened under the George W. Bush administration to house detainees in the war on terrorism, drew a sharp rebuke Sunday evening from the White House, which said the documents were obtained illegally. "We strongly condemn the leaking of this sensitive information," the White House said. The materials were obtained and released by WikiLeaks as part of its ongoing publication of classified documents dealing with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as secret State Department cables and other material. (Los Angeles Times)
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posted: 5/12/11                   0       2
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4/25/2011 WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed
Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose.

Al-Qaeda terrorists have threatened to unleash a “nuclear hellstorm” on the West if Osama Bin Laden is caught or assassinated, according to documents to be released by the WikiLeaks website, which contain details of the interrogations of more than 700 Guantanamo detainees. However, the shocking human cost of obtaining this intelligence is also exposed with dozens of innocent people sent to Guantanamo – and hundreds of low-level foot-soldiers being held for years and probably tortured before being assessed as of little significance. The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website. The disclosures are set to spark intense debate around the world about the establishment of Guantanamo Bay in the months after 9/11 – which has enabled the US to collect vital intelligence from senior Al Qaeda commanders but sparked fury in the middle east and Europe over the treatment of detainees. (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/12/11                   0       2
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12/8/2010 Julian Assange: Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths -- WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks.
IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public. I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth. (The Australian)
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posted: 12/7/10                   0       13
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1/22/2010 Pentagon drops charges against 9/11 plotters, clearing way for civilian trials
The Pentagon said the dismissal of the charges "without prejudice" against alleged plot leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the others, Walid Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin al Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, was a procedural step to clear the way for their civilian trials. (McClatchy Newspapers)
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posted: 4/27/10                   0       5
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1/6/2010 Furious Obama blasts U.S. intelligence for failing to connect the dots over Christmas Day bomber
'Clearly there was security information about this individual's activities, and that was information that was shared with the U.S. authorities,' the spokesman said. 'That is the key point.' (UK Daily Mail)
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posted: 1/28/10                   0       14
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12/27/2009 Gitmo transfer to Yemen in doubt
The Obama administration had planned to send 80 Yemenis held at Guantanamo home in the coming months. (UPI)
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posted: 4/27/10                   0       2
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12/24/2009 Yemen: New frontier in US 'war on terror'
The increased violence in Yemen is a clear indication that military campaigns to crush al-Qaeda-inspired violence extend far beyond the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The US has invested some $70m (£40m) in military aid in Yemen in the past year, believed to include training, the use of drones and intelligence to pinpoint al-Qaeda camps and activity. (BBC)
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posted: 1/30/10                   0       13
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8/24/2009 Top prosecutor orders probe into interrogations; Obama shifts onus
Attorney General Eric Holder has asked federal prosecutor John Durham to examine whether CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists were illegal, the Justice Department announced Monday (CNN)
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posted: 8/24/09                   0       17
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8/22/2009 Extraordinary rendition for … white-collar criminals?
Opponents of the practice of extraordinary rendition are growing increasingly vocal about the case of Raymond Azar, a Lebanese construction contractor who was picked up by the FBI on allegations of bribery, shackled, blindfolded and flown to the United States for trial (The Raw Story)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       12
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8/21/2009 Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists (Newsweek)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       16
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8/13/2009 John Pilger: Obama Is A Corporate Marketing Creation
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7/25/2009 CIA 'put pressure on Britain to cover up its use of torture'
The documents, to be discussed at a hearing this week, suggest that the UK authorities did everything they could to accede to the CIA's wishes while at the same time trying to conceal the fact they were talking to the agency (UK Daily Mail)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       9
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7/21/2009 Freed Guantanamo Detainees Claim Post-Obama Mistreatment
He claims that abuse of detainees at the prison continues, despite President Obama's order forbidding any forms of torture (Spiegel)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       12
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7/17/2009 Australian trade commissioner feared dead in Jakarta bombings
A senior Australian trade official is missing after the Jakarta Hotel bombings. There are grave fears for the life of Austrade Commissioner in charge of Mining, Craig Senger, who was at the Marriott Hotel when the bombs went off this morning. (Australian Daily Telegraph)
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posted: 7/21/09                   0       9
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7/15/2009 Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations by Hillary Rodham Clinton
“We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.” (Department of State)
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posted: 7/20/09                   0       15
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7/9/2009 Mexico Accused of Torture in Drug War
Army Using Brutality To Fight Trafficking, Rights Groups Say (Washington Post)
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posted: 7/13/09                   0       12
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7/7/2009 White House: Acquitted detainees may not be released
Chief Department of Defense lawyer Jeh Johnson told a Senate committee “that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed a future threat,” (The Raw Story)
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posted: 7/8/09                   0       10
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7/3/2009 Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War
Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over (Associated Press)
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posted: 7/4/09       0       8
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7/2/2009 Bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears House
Invasion of privacy is an issue that really gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs' skin (The Philidelphia Inquirer)
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posted: 7/5/09                   0       9
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6/27/2009 White House Weighs Order on Detention
Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely (Washington Post)
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posted: 6/29/09                   2       14
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6/22/2009 The Secret History
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past?

Panetta had become an advocate for secrecy so quickly, a White House official joked, that "it's like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'" (The New Yorker)
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posted: 6/15/09                   3       32
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6/17/2009 U.S. House Approves War-Spending Bill Amid Dispute Over IMF
A $106 billion bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won approval in the U.S. House, overcoming nearly unified opposition from Republicans who opposed the measure’s aid to the International Monetary Fund (Bloomberg)
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posted: 6/17/09                   8       22
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6/16/2009 ACLU lawyer: On torture, Obama breaking transparency promises
(The Raw Story)
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posted: 6/17/09                   3       21
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6/16/2009 E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said (New York Times)
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posted: 6/17/09                   8       21
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6/15/2009 ACLU: Heavily redacted CIA docs render more torture evidence
"The information released today sheds some new light on the CIA's torture program, but there are still unanswered questions," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project (The Raw Story)
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posted: 6/16/09                   6       21
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6/15/2009 Cheney Smells Blood in the Water
CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point." (Military.com)
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posted: 6/15/09                   6       25
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6/12/2009 Abuse Photos Part of Agreement on Military Spending
Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September but would drop a ban on the release of photographs showing abuse of foreign prisoners held by United States forces (New York Times)
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posted: 6/12/09                   6       32
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6/12/2009 Row erupts over Guantanamo deal
A diplomatic spat has broken out over Bermuda's acceptance of four Chinese Muslim Uighurs released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay (BBC)
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posted: 6/12/09                   7       24
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6/10/2009 Pacific island agrees to accept Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo
The remote Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba (CBC)
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posted: 6/11/09                   7       26
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6/9/2009 Democrat warns Obama risks 'future Guantanamos'
Senator Russ Feingold said he was "troubled" by Obama's policies, warning the practice of holding some suspected terrorists indefinitely risked being "effectively enshrined as acceptable in our system of justice." (Agence France-Presse)
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posted: 6/10/09                   6       24
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6/6/2009 Obama may toss 'full trials' for alleged 9/11 plotters
This option would principally be aimed at a group of detainees accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, five people who have already indicated they prefer this resolution of the case (The Raw Story)
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posted: 6/7/09                   5       21
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6/5/2009 U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases
The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial (New York Times)
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posted: 6/6/09                   6       29
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5/31/2009 The Trauma of 9/11 Is No Excuse
"Unless you were there, in a position of responsibility after September 11, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans," Condoleezza Rice (Washington Post)
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posted: 6/10/09                   3       25
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5/29/2009 US violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq commander says (The Raw Story)
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posted: 6/1/09                   4       18
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5/27/2009 Homegrown terror threat still real, Van Loan warns
Canadians would be naive to think the threat of terrorism is behind them (CBC)
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posted: 5/31/09                   5       21
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5/27/2009 Who Will Stand Up to America and Israel? Doublespeak on North Korea
"Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up To’ North Korea” (Counter Punch)
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posted: 5/27/09                   4       27
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5/26/2009 Ex-Detainee Describes His 7 Years at Guantanamo
he was force-fed through a nasal tube for more than two years when he went on a hunger strike (New York Times)
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posted: 6/4/09                   3       21
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5/23/2009 U.S. Relies More on Aid of Allies in Terror Cases
relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/26/09                   3       23
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5/22/2009 Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Some
President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba (Washington Post)
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posted: 5/22/09                   2       29
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5/22/2009 Supermax Prisons in U.S. Already Hold Terrorists (Washington Post)
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posted: 5/26/09                   2       32
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5/21/2009 Kim Jong-il shifts to plan B
"What is of fundamental interest to the destiny and fate of a nation is to safeguard its independence."

Kim Jong-il (Asia Times)
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posted: 6/15/09                   2       18
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5/21/2009 Obama's Trail of Broken Promises
Morphing Dick Cheney

Getting behind Obama’s validation of the Bush/Cheney policy, House Democrats pulled the budget funding that was to be used for closing Guantanamo

The change that we are witnessing is in Obama, not in policies. Obama is morphing into Dick Cheney. Obama has not been in office four months and already a book could be written about his broken promises. (Counter Punch)
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posted: 5/21/09                   6       31
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5/19/2009 Jeremy Scahill: “Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama” (Democracy Now)
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posted: 5/20/09                   8       24
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5/17/2009 Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners
The Black Shirts of Guantánamo (Counter Punch)
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posted: 5/20/09                   6       25
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5/16/2009 Giving Some Love to the Inquisition
At a Senate hearing this past week, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, rallied to the defense of ex-President George W. Bush’s torture techniques by implicitly endorsing the Spanish Inquisition’s brutal treatment of Jews, Muslims, Protestants and other alleged heretics from the 15th to 17th centuries (Consortium News)
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posted: 5/19/09                   4       32
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5/15/2009 Obama to renew military tribunals
He had pledged during the presidential campaign to end the controversial trials of terrorism suspects. Human rights groups are outraged (Los Angeles Times)
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posted: 5/15/09                   7       27
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