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Guantanamo Bay Military Trials to Resume: What Do the Pundits Think?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt was a top priority in his 2008 presidential campaign, but it appears that Barack Obama won't be closing Gitmo anytime soon. The White House announced on Monday that military trials will resume at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where a new executive order signed by the president now creates a system in which prisoners could be subject to indefinite detention. Besides reigniting the debate surrounding the legality of military tribunals, the decision will also likely allow the prosecution of Guantanamo detainees such as alleged 9/11 organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who wasn't ...
Opinion: Obama's Gitmo Flip Flop is a Win-Win
By J.D. Gordon - AOL NewsThough no one would have guessed it during his inauguration week over two years ago -- when President Barack Obama boldly ordered the closure of Guantanamo's detention facilities and the immediate suspension of military commissions -- he has just reversed course and lifted the ban on military trials for detainees. And as most would also find surprising, it's actually a win-win for his administration. First, it shows conservatives and independents that Obama is willing to govern from the center. Polls show most Americans support holding al-Qaida and Taliban-linked enemy combatants at ...
Remember How Obama Promised to Close Guantanamo Bay?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- What should be done about Gitmo? In a long review of three publications on the subject for The New York Review of Books, David Cole ponders this continually vexing question. Allegedly conceived, Cole writes, as a "hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from again," the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay was set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks by the Bush administration. It incurred widespread domestic and international outrage since it first began accepting prisoners in October 2001. And yet it has survived virtually ...
Sen. Graham, White House Talks on Gitmo Worrying Some Republicans
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. Lindsey Graham's private conversations with the Obama administration on closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are making some of Graham's fellow Republicans nervous. Graham (R-S.C.) has been involved in meetings and phone calls with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel over the past several weeks discussing his conditions for supporting a shutdown of the prison, the Hill newspaper reported Thursday. Graham wants assurances that it would not hurt national security, and he favors setting up a new national security court where most of the remaining detainees could be ...
Liberal Outrage Over 'Prolonged Detention' is Premature
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn his speech yesterday, the President laid out his plans for dealing with 5 different categories of detainees. The most controversial of these, from the left's point of view, may be the fifth, "detainees at Guantanamo who cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to the American people."On last night's "Rachel Maddow Show," as good a bellwether as any of the liberal mood, Rachel posited a comparison between Barack Obama's outline for dealing with that 5th category of Gitmo Detainees, and sci-fi film "Minority Report's" Bureau of Future Crime.: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World ...
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