Posts tagged “Guantanamo”
And The Beat Goes On…
Guess what else hasn’t changed since January 20, 2009? The Obama administration has declined requests from U.N. human rights investigators for information on secret prisons and for private interviews with inmates at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.N. officials said, dampening their hopes of greater U.S. cooperation on human rights issues. [...]
The Dysfunctional Politics Of Despair
The last eight years have not been demographically kind to the Republican Party: In 2001, respondents were asked for their party affiliation, and independents were encouraged to pick one of the two major parties. Democrats had the narrowest of leads over the GOP, 45% to 44%. This year, Dems are up to 53%, while Republicans [...]
NIMBY Is Contagious
Take a group of people who really haven’t done anything. Take them to Guantanamo, that is. And they are tarred and feathered forever as the worst of the worst, even when responsible legal authorities determine — despite all the pressure that a thoroughly dishonest government can and does exert — that they never really did [...]
Lies In The News
Here’s a little round-up of lies that made the news yesterday. (1) Little Lizzie lies again. This time, it was on Campbell Brown’s CNN show, during a “Great Debate” segment with Salon’s Joan Walsh: WALSH: Liz, the top — the top military leaders of our country want Guantanamo closed. President Bush, in June 2009 [sic], [...]
Heartwarming Willingness
Looks like we have a brand new Coalition of the Willing shaping up: Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration’s decision to close the prison camp. The announcement today by the Pacific archipelago, [...]
A Glimpse Into The Soul Of George W. Bush
Former Guantanamo detainee Lakhdar Boumediene is in the news again, thanks to an exclusive interview with ABC News. Boumediene is best known for Boumediene v. Bush, the case in which the Supreme Court ruled in June 2008 that Guantanamo detainees have the right to habeas corpus. Boumediene was transported to Guantanamo in 2001 on what [...]
The Other Obama Shows Himself Again
The garbage we’ve seen from the Obama administration and his vaunted Justice Department team in recent weeks and months with respect to the state secrets privilege or warrantless wiretapping lawsuits has been bad enough. Not only has Obama supported every single assertion of the state secrets privilege by the Bush administration (here’s a partial recitation), [...]
What’s In A Name?
Last week, Harry Reid was thundering to the press that “We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States”, by which he meant that we will never allow Guantanamo detainees to be moved to U.S. prisons, not even supermax facilities. At that time, I accused him of having balls you need an [...]
Quote Of The Day
Shaun Mullen, at Kiko’s House, puts into perspective the buckyballs cowardice that has “feckless Demoquacks” caving in to Republicans’ criminally stupid NIMBY campaign: …majority leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi caved in to pressure from Republicans — yes, the crowd whose power is so diminished that they could fit into a men’s room stall at [...]
Democrats Fold Once More
Many irresponsible liberal bloggers are now going around saying that congressional Democrats have no balls at all. Not true. They do have balls. You just need an electron microscope to see them. Republicans have been jumping up and down in well-simulated apoplexy as they portray President Obama‘s decision to close Guantanamo as constituting a grave [...]