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Imprisoned For Life Without Trial

By Dana Milbank

With Monday's announcement that the Obama administration will resume military tribunals at Gitmo, conservatives rushed out triumphant I-told-you-sos. Liberal supporters were again feeling betrayed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27643.htm

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Obamas new executive order on Guantanamo

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

03/08/11

The new Executive Order has been previewed for months and merely codifies what has long been Obama's policy: 'long' in the sense of 'since he's inaugurated' -- not, of course, 'when he was a Senator and presidential candidate.' I'm writing about this merely to address the excuse from the White House and its loyalists that the fault for this policy, this inability to 'close Guantanamo,' lies with Congress, which forced the President to abandon his oft-stated campaign pledge. That excuse is pure fiction...

http://salon.com/a/sDCwfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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