Gitmo Soldiers Get 9/11 History Lessons
The FBI now holds briefings for military personnel stationed at Guantanamo about the attacks and their connection to the island prison.
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Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
There is no compelling security reason to keep classified details about the CIA’s now-shuttered black prisons. The task force hopes their report will spur more government transparency on the treatment of detainees, starting with the release of the Senate investigation.
Read MoreHunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo
With 59 detainees at Gitmo currently on hunger strike, by the military’s count, here’s a primer on what’s going at the island prison.
Read MoreGitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Accessing Their Emails
Defense attorneys say somebody has accessed their email and servers.
Read MoreGitmo-Wikileaks reveals US knowingly held innocent prisoners for years
Wikileaks has begun releasing documents now being disseminated by the NY Times and the Guardian newspapers that detail how the Bush and Obama administrations have knowingly held innocent people at Guantanamo Bay. Details of 758 prisoners that included an 89-year-old Afghan villager and a 14-year-old boy who had been kidnapped. Some were imprisoned merely for wearing a popular model Casio watch used as timers by some members of al-Qaeda.
Read MoreObama continues to disappoint with draft executive order for indefinite detention
>Obama administration’s “presidential assassination program,” whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they’re involved in Terrorism.
Read MoreThe Daily Show – Respect my Authoritah
“Barack Obama thinks he can be trusted with the power, but he’s being stalked by a strange and twisted creature who wants to take the precious away.” The president has ticked off progressives for a lot of reasons including his lame ass speech last night about the oil spill. Today he toots his horn that he got BP to commit to more than the $75M cap on damages.
Russ Feingold writes Obama regarding 'preventive detention'
The Obama strategy of prolonged detention definitely has a feel reminiscent of the Orwellian ‘thought police’, or seems like a scene out of the movie Minority Report where subjects were arrested for crimes they had...
Read MoreOlbermann – Special Comment – Cheney doing the work of terrorists
Olbermann comments on Cheney’s Politico inverview wherein he declares that Obama is catering to terrorists.
The Daily Show – Karen Greenberg: The Least Worst Place
A history behind the development and enhanced interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.
Olbermann – Obama seeks to regain US moral high ground
Obama, flanked by retired military officers signs executive order ‘REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE
GUANTÃNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES’ to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within one year.
Olbermann – Cheney defends Gitmo
Some people are so dark and so thoughtless and so completely without humanity as to give every appearance of being sociopathic. Cheney is one of those people. Personally, the more than 3000% gains in his Haliburton stock holdings since the war began paid for by the blood and sacrifice of American GIs and the fact that he has not to my knowledge ever attended a single funeral speak to his character.
