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Gitmo Prisoners Could Be Headed to Michigan

By | 08.13.09 | 10:36 am

Obama administration officials will tour a Michigan state prison today in the hopes of using it to hold suspected terrorists now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, The Associated Press reports.

Representatives of the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security are scheduled to visit the prison in Standish, Mich., More…

Democrats Team Up With Republicans to Block Gitmo’s Closure

By | 05.19.09 | 1:13 pm

We already knew that Republicans were fighting tooth and nail to keep President Obama from closing the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and fulfilling one of the first pledges of his presidency, but now it looks like the Democrats in the Senate — Obama’s supposed allies — are working against More…

OLC Authorized Pentagon to Ignore Bill of Rights On U.S. Soil

By | 03.02.09 | 7:04 pm

In an October 2001 memo released today on Monday, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not only deploy the military within the United States, but it may More…