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	<title>Comments on: What to Look For As the Obama Detention/Interrogation Review Process Proceeds</title>
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		<title>By: Leon Panetta: What&#8217;s he thinking? &#171; Later On</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/26990/what-to-look-for-as-the-obama-detentioninterrogation-review-process-proceeds/comment-page-1#comment-32959</link>
		<dc:creator>Leon Panetta: What&#8217;s he thinking? &#171; Later On</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The propaganda-fuel argument is at least straightforward. But — and I freely concede that this is speculative, occurring in the absence of information due to the statement’s classified nature — how can al-Qaeda detainees learn how to evade questioning from descriptions of techniques that the Obama administration has forsworn? This is the sort of move that suggests that remnants of the so-called “enhanced interrogation” program are going to live on, speeches in Cairo promising new beginnings notwithstanding. Another thing to watch closely as the administration’s interrogations and detentions review proceeds. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The propaganda-fuel argument is at least straightforward. But — and I freely concede that this is speculative, occurring in the absence of information due to the statement’s classified nature — how can al-Qaeda detainees learn how to evade questioning from descriptions of techniques that the Obama administration has forsworn? This is the sort of move that suggests that remnants of the so-called “enhanced interrogation” program are going to live on, speeches in Cairo promising new beginnings notwithstanding. Another thing to watch closely as the administration’s interrogations and detentions review proceeds. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: timmy o tool</title>
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		<dc:creator>timmy o tool</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush took it to a new level but you people do understand Clinton started the ball rolling on rendition practice.  Republicrats/Democans....different side of the same coin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Like the bloods &amp; crips but with suites on.  Start voting for those non politician 3rd party candidates in the future if you want real change america.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush took it to a new level but you people do understand Clinton started the ball rolling on rendition practice.  Republicrats/Democans&#8230;.different side of the same coin.</p>
<p>Like the bloods &#038; crips but with suites on.  Start voting for those non politician 3rd party candidates in the future if you want real change america.</p>
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		<title>By: timmy o tool</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/26990/what-to-look-for-as-the-obama-detentioninterrogation-review-process-proceeds/comment-page-1#comment-18554</link>
		<dc:creator>timmy o tool</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush took it to a new level but you people do understand Clinton started the ball rolling on rendition practice.  Republicrats/Democans....different side of the same coin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Like the bloods &amp; crips but with suites on.  Start voting for those non politician 3rd party candidates in the future if you want real change america.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush took it to a new level but you people do understand Clinton started the ball rolling on rendition practice.  Republicrats/Democans&#8230;.different side of the same coin.</p>
<p>Like the bloods &#038; crips but with suites on.  Start voting for those non politician 3rd party candidates in the future if you want real change america.</p>
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		<title>By: Obama: Regime Rotation</title>
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		<dc:creator>Obama: Regime Rotation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] intelligence practices, than to allow them to continue in secret without legal obstruction, by redefining their character (while retaining their [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Obama: Regime Rotation &#171; In These New Times</title>
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		<dc:creator>Obama: Regime Rotation &#171; In These New Times</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] intelligence practices, than to allow them to continue in secret without legal obstruction, by redefining their character (while retaining their [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] intelligence practices, than to allow them to continue in secret without legal obstruction, by redefining their character (while retaining their [...]</p>
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		<title>By: freedetainees.org &#187; Obama: Regime Rotation</title>
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		<dc:creator>freedetainees.org &#187; Obama: Regime Rotation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] intelligence practices, than to allow them to continue in secret without legal obstruction, by redefining their character (while retaining their [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jeff Weinberger</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/26990/what-to-look-for-as-the-obama-detentioninterrogation-review-process-proceeds/comment-page-1#comment-16173</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Weinberger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree that Obama&#039;s statement, and its decisive tone, was very encouraging.  But while you suggest it includes &quot;extraordinary rendition: ended,&quot; I ask when did he say this.  You may rightly infer this from his statement, but I agree with Vincent Warren, Exec. Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights who, interviewed Friday on Democracy Now! , stated with regard to rendition: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;It’s a tremendous problem, and I think it’s a glaring hole. I think that one way that the Obama administration could have dealt a more decisive blow to the illegal Bush policies and even the rendition policy, which originated under Bill Clinton, is to specifically reference this and to say that we are going to disavow this policy, and we’re going to make right the renditions that we’ve—that the government has done in the past, including to the Center for Constitutional Rights client, Maher Arar, who was kidnapped and sent to Syria, even though he was on his way to Canada. I think that the Obama administration, likely because of pressure from the CIA, in trying to get that team together, has waffled, and it’s not engaged this issue yet. I am concerned that the Obama administration would even consider continuing this as a policy to effectuate the so-called war on terror or whatever it is he’s going to call it.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Direct reference was never made by Obama to extraordinary rendition nor  to how we will deal with prisoners in the other prisons in the War against Terror prison complex, like Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, which holds even more detainees than Guantanamo.  These issues need to be addressed not by implication, but in a clear statement of policy which unambiguously condemns the former practice and calls for investigations into violations of rights as in the case of Maher Arar; and includes the entire prison complex, not just Guantanamo, in a discussion of how the new administration will move forward.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that Obama&#39;s statement, and its decisive tone, was very encouraging.  But while you suggest it includes &#8220;extraordinary rendition: ended,&#8221; I ask when did he say this.  You may rightly infer this from his statement, but I agree with Vincent Warren, Exec. Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights who, interviewed Friday on Democracy Now! , stated with regard to rendition: </p>
<p>&#8220;It’s a tremendous problem, and I think it’s a glaring hole. I think that one way that the Obama administration could have dealt a more decisive blow to the illegal Bush policies and even the rendition policy, which originated under Bill Clinton, is to specifically reference this and to say that we are going to disavow this policy, and we’re going to make right the renditions that we’ve—that the government has done in the past, including to the Center for Constitutional Rights client, Maher Arar, who was kidnapped and sent to Syria, even though he was on his way to Canada. I think that the Obama administration, likely because of pressure from the CIA, in trying to get that team together, has waffled, and it’s not engaged this issue yet. I am concerned that the Obama administration would even consider continuing this as a policy to effectuate the so-called war on terror or whatever it is he’s going to call it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Direct reference was never made by Obama to extraordinary rendition nor  to how we will deal with prisoners in the other prisons in the War against Terror prison complex, like Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, which holds even more detainees than Guantanamo.  These issues need to be addressed not by implication, but in a clear statement of policy which unambiguously condemns the former practice and calls for investigations into violations of rights as in the case of Maher Arar; and includes the entire prison complex, not just Guantanamo, in a discussion of how the new administration will move forward.</p>
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		<title>By: Hp Pavilion dv6000</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hp Pavilion dv6000</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The Washington Independent » What To Look For As The Obama &#8230; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: ben</title>
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		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So now that Obama&#039;s elected I should stop reading the newspaper, huh? I mean, paying attention is apparently really cynical, right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So now that Obama&#39;s elected I should stop reading the newspaper, huh? I mean, paying attention is apparently really cynical, right?</p>
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		<title>By: Total</title>
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		<dc:creator>Total</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh for God&#039;s sake.  It&#039;s like progressives are determined that Things Will Be Bad.  Obama won, but he&#039;s not as liberal as he should be! Well, he&#039;s pretty liberal, but he&#039;s appointing moderates!  Well, he&#039;s going farther than we expected in shutting the Bush stuff down, but he&#039;ll try to sneak something through!  Eek!  Aah!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh for God&#39;s sake.  It&#39;s like progressives are determined that Things Will Be Bad.  Obama won, but he&#39;s not as liberal as he should be! Well, he&#39;s pretty liberal, but he&#39;s appointing moderates!  Well, he&#39;s going farther than we expected in shutting the Bush stuff down, but he&#39;ll try to sneak something through!  Eek!  Aah!</p>
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