After being tortured, and held without trial for 9 years, Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri faces a kangaroo tribunal at Guantanamo for bombing the U.S.S. Cole.
Gitmo: New and Improved
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Obama signs an executive order expanding the right of the government to hold prisoners without charging them and keeping Guantanamo concentration camp open.
Rescued and Imprisoned
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Haitian earthquake victims were evacuated and are now rotting in secret ICE prisons.
Gitmo High School
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Strange, but true: The Obama Administration is refusing to release many Guantanamo detainees they know are innocent because they may be embittered due to their long, unjustified imprisonment by the United States.
The Asterisk President
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Fairly self-explanatory, but this is something I’ve been trying to convey about Obama for some time. He has perfect Bush’s art of getting the big headline and then amending it into nothingness later when nobody is paying attention. Remember Bush’s signing statements? Obama doesn’t need them–he does the same thing without them.
Nation of Criminals
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Republicans argue that the Gitmo detainees cannot be safely transferred to the U.S. Why not?
Liberal Projection
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In all the ways that matter to liberals, Barack Obama is the second coming of George W. Bush. But in the same way that Republicans project their values of small government and low taxes on a party that doesn’t adhere to them, liberal Democrats project values of being antiwar and pro-civil liberties that they don’t make the slightest pretense of following.
The Immoral Majority
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The torture debate has come down to whether or not it’s effective. Why are opponents of torture playing this game? Whether or not torture works is irrelevant. Even if it would save millions of lives–and that’s a stretch, to say the least–it’s wrong. What happened to Americans? Why are we so morally bankrupt? Wrong is wrong. It doesn’t matter whether or not it pays.
