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Yemeni Official: It’s Our ‘Duty’ to Ask for Return of Detainees

By | 01.04.10 | 5:15 pm

Critics of President Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility are saying that the Yemen connections of would-be plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ought to prevent the administration from repatriating dozens of Yemeni detainees currently held at Guantanamo. “It would be irresponsible to take any of the Yemeni More…

House Intel GOPers React To Dem Letter On Panetta

By | 07.08.09 | 11:12 pm

I just got reaction from Jamal Ware, spokesman for the Republicans on the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, to the letter that seven of their Democratic colleagues issued saying that CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded in recent, closed testimony that CIA had misled Congress since 2001 on torture. Now, More…