(updated below - Update II)
The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee report issued on Thursday — which documents that “former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba” and “that Rumsfeld’s actions were ‘a direct cause of [...]
How typical is this? Now the US wants EU to clean up it’s own mess….that’s Obama’s answer?
Tom Baldwin in Washington
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America is putting increasing pressure on Britain and other European countries to take in dozens of Guantánamo detainees so that Barack Obama can close down the infamous [...]
Once upon a time, Americans were fond of looking upon places where law was whatever the king said it was, and noting with pride that we do things differently in our country. But that was a day long ago and a country long gone.
By Leonard Pitts Jr
Syndicated columnist
Meanwhile, back at the War on Terror …
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In asking other countries to take the Uighurs, the Bush administration argues that US terrorism laws prohibit them from coming to the US, but critics say the government can provide waivers.
Tom Malinowski, of Human Rights Watch, said the state department had for months argued internally that the US should provide waivers for a few detainees to put pressure on other countries to help, but had met resistance from the justice department and Mr Cheney.
…Ok this one is begging for a comment. The US praising another country for releasing IT’S detainees? I have decided that I will buy a pizza for anyone who has a really good comment to insert here instead of this one… since I am so…. speechless that my mind has escaped me… just leave a [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
