- In his first major interview since polling day, President-elect
Barack Obama said last night that upon taking office he would close Guantanamo
Bay and ban torture by the American military. He also said it would be
"a disaster" if the US car industry were to collapse in the midst
of today's economic crisis.
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- And now the most outrageous LIAR in American Presidential
history....
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- President Obama
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- Issues
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- Executive Order
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- Institutionalizing
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- Indefinite Detention
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- ACLU
- March 8, 2011
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- Administration Also Announces It Will Use Military Commissions
For New Terrorism Cases
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- CONTACT 212 549-2666 media@aclu.org
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- NEW YORK President Obama today issued an executive
order that permits ongoing indefinite detention of Guantánamo detainees
while establishing a periodic administrative review process for them. The
administration also announced it will lift the ban on bringing new military
commissions charges against detainees that don't already have ongoing cases
in the substandard system.
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- The American Civil Liberties Union has long called for
Guantánamo to be shut down and opposes the indefinite detention
of prisoners there, some of whom have been imprisoned by the U.S. without
charge or trial for nine years. The ACLU has also long called for an end
to the illegitimate military commissions and for the government to prosecute
terrorism suspects in the federal criminal courts.
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