***Call in Radio Show on this issue tonight at 8 pm! Details below*** The Controversy Many of Rand Paul's more libertarian supporters are concerned about his recent statements regarding the Guantanamo Bay detention center, though many of his more conservative supporters might be very pleased: For Immediate Release November 19, 2009 BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate...
From avoidthebias.com and for Senate hearing just before this discussion see Republicans and Democrats present their concerns in questioning AG Holder on trials of Guantanamo Bay Detainees in NY and Fort Hood shooting Related: Video: Republican Lindsey Graham asks excellent questions of AG Holder on Guantanam Bay Detainee trials to be held in NY
The latest from our COLUMNIST SECTION:Wednesday, Nov 18, 06:55 PM Wednesday, Nov 18, 10:05 AM Wednesday, Nov 18, 09:55 AM Tuesday, Nov 17, 12:57 PM Tuesday, Nov 17, 09:49 AM Monday, Nov 16, 10:01 PM Sunday, Nov 15, 10:34 AM Sunday, Nov 15, 10:32 AM Saturday, Nov 14, 09:40 AM Saturday, Nov 14, 07:48 AM Thursday, Nov 12, 08:11 AM Wednesday, Nov 11, 07:26 AM Tuesday, Nov 10, 08:50 AM Monday, Nov 09, 09:01...
To watch all the Senator's questions and then answers by Holder go to avoidthebias.com . Also from avoidthebias.com see Bradford Berenson and Devon Chaffee talked about Guantanamo Bay Detainee trials to be held in the states and to watch an actual trial in action see Canadian Supreme Court Case" Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper v. Omar Khadr (Guantanamo Bay Detainee) part 1 and 2. Graham...
I have never had any problem with water-boarding and other methods we used at Guantanamo Bay. What troubles me is the no trial thingy. Every dog has a right to his day, regardless of the situation. We can’t make “new rules” as we go along. If Bush would have brought these folks to [...]
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA's inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets. Evidence that the foreign secretary also wants to suppress is believed to reveal what British intelligence officers knew about Mohamed's...
Related: Gallup and Rasmussen polls have Obama approval rating below 50%. Anyone with a lick of common sense could have seen that end result. Barack Obama finally had to admit this week that he would not close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by his self-imposed deadline of January 2010 — and would not set a new deadline, either. What happened? The AP investigated — and discovered...
It doesn’t look like Omar Khadr will be packing his suitcase and heading to Canada any time soon. Last Friday, U.S. Attorney-General Eric Holder announced that the Canadian citizen and alleged terrorist will face prosecution for war crimes before a U.S. military tribunal. The decision has raised the ire of Canadian activists who seem more concerned that the 15-year-old Khadr was deprived of...
It's always too good to pass up when a progressive gets pwned by their own post. Such is the case with this Greg Sargent post at Plumline. They must count on people not clicking their links. Sargent's silly smear attempt...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/17/argentina.dirty.war/index.html This article tells about the efforts of anthropologists to find and identify the bodies of people who had been kidnapped and executed in Argentina during the dirty war. A trial will be held on December 15th for former officers suspected in these executions. Only recently, immunity laws for those officers were overturned. This...
FILE PHOTO - Commissions building courtroom at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Christopher Mobley.) N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- The following news release made available Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense is the text of a statement announcing military commission actions: Today, prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions announced...
By Zaid Jilani Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking out against a possible transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the city. The video ominously warns that the transfer would turn the town into “ Guantanamo North ” and claims that Standish...
Videos
