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Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo - Glenn Greenwald - Salo... - 0 views

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    Numerous media outlets -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and NPR, among others - last night published classified files on more than 700 past and present Guantanamo detainees. The leak was originally provided to WikiLeaks, which then gave them to the Post, NPR and others; the NYT and The Guardian claim to have received them from "another source" (WikiLeaks suggested the "other source" was Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former WikiLeaks associate who WikiLeaks claims took, without authorization, many WikiLeaks files when he left). The documents reveal vast new information about these detainees and, in particular, the shoddy and unreliable nature of the "evidence" used (both before and now) to justify their due-process-free detentions. There are several points worth noting about all this:
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A disgrace of historic proportions - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    72% of Guantanamo detainees whose cases have been heard by a federal court have been ordered released. News and views from Glenn Greenwald
Matthew Davis

Gitmo Inmates Still Tortured - 0 views

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    A story about how torture persists for 250+ detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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    Even though Obama promised to shut down Guanatanamo Bay, the truth is that over 250 inmates are still subjected to torture. It seems that whatever the White House say the Pentagon and US army will try to work-around however possible.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed military trial: Obama's cowardly, stupid, and wrong decision to ... - 0 views

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    Today, by ordering a military trial at Guantanamo for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants, Attorney General Eric Holder finally put the Obama administration's stamp on the proposition that some criminals are "too dangerous to have fair trials."
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Has Obama kept a single campaign promise? | Thinkahol's Blog - 0 views

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    Obama hasn't closed Guantanamo and people are still being tortured at Bagram[2], the U.S. is bombing at least six Muslim countries that we know of (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan)[3], and the healthcare bill fiasco in which he had secretly traded away the public option from the beginning[4] very clearly show that he definitely hasn't changed the way Washington works. If anything he's made every conceivable pernicious undemocratic influence stronger.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    Sobering reading about the treatment of prisoner during Shrub's (George Bush the younger's) time in office.
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