First steps taken to implement preventive detention, military commissions

From this interim report, it's more apparent than ever that the central excuse made by Obama defenders to justify preventive detention and military commissions -- there are dangerous Terrorists who cannot be released but also cannot be tried because Bush obtained the evidence against them via torture -- is an absolute myth. That's clear for multiple reasons: Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Glenn Greenwald
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 21, 2009 - 8:00 AM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 21, 2009

Greenwald strongly protests Obama's dictatorial imprisonment powers he is trying now to claim, after opposing those same powers when abused by bush.

The Alice in Wonderland absurdity of -first the sentence, then the verdict - is a telling equivalent to this proposed Obama Orwellian doublespeak of justice.

Nobody is talking about confining the power of preventive detention or military commissions to current Guantanamo detainees who were tortured. The opposite is true: this ... More »

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