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The cost of Guantanamo
The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted...
Tags: Terrorism, Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Strikes, Dianne Feinstein
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Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...
Tags: Trials, Barack Obama, Litigation, Prisons, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Senate expected to back Cardin human rights measure despite White House concerns
— Legislation by Sen. Ben Cardin to pressure Russia on human rights abuses is expected to win approval in Congress Thursday despite concerns that it will hurt already tenuous U.S. relations with the Kremlin. The proposal — which requires the...
Tags: United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Georgetown, U.S. House of Representatives, Business
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Tags: Lawyers, Trials, Witnesses, Suicide, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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The shameful treatment of foreign children in U.S. custody
The State Department revealed this month that the United States has detained more than 200 children at its military prison in Afghanistan. I represent one of them, a boy who left his parents' home in Karachi, Pakistan in July 2008, when he was 14, on a...Tags: Lawyers, Sociology, Prisons, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Military
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What about Obama's broken promises?
The headline on Jules Witcover's recent op-ed ("Pressure is on Obama," Oct. 9) should have been "Obama committee member speaks out." Is he serious that the dog on the roof incident is still a topic for discussion? Mr. Witcover spends the first half of...Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
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Obama for president
Barack Obama has not been a perfect president. Millions are still suffering from a weak economy, vitally important issues like climate change and immigration remain all but unaddressed, and most disappointingly, the promise of a new politics to move us...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Nursing Homes, Muammar Gaddafi, Long Term Care, Economic Stimulus Plan
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Obama's foreign policy reset has little to show for it
Four years ago, a telegenic, charismatic senator from Illinois cobbled together a New Deal coalition of labor, environmentalists, progressives, African-Americans and young people to capture the presidency. It was an exciting time. America had elected its...
Tags: Barack Obama, International Travel, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Islam, Elections
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Debate revealed President Obama's weaknesses
President Obama finally showed America, especially his base, his inability to grasp America's complex economic machine. When elected, everyone knew he lacked leadership experience, but we hoped he would learn quickly and hire seasoned advisors who...Tags: Barack Obama, Economic Stimulus Plan
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Libya crisis the latest chapter in Obama's foreign policy follies
We're now entering the fourth week of the "CSI: Benghazi" hostage crisis. That's how long an FBI forensic team has been trying to gain access in Libya to what the State Department still calls a crime scene -- the Obamaadministration's preferred term for...
Tags: Interior Policy, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Christopher Stevens, Iraq War (2003-2011), Times Square
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Obama missteps facilitated Libyan attack
After a week of President Barack Obama's typical lying fashion, his administration finally admitted that the terrorist assault on the American consulate in Benghazi and the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens was a preplanned operation by anti-...Tags: Christopher Stevens, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Osama bin Laden
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