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Chicago's own "Gitmo" prison
2012-01-14 16:48:00 A while ago, there were some acts of terrorism going on, sabotage and finally a war. War means prisoners. Prisoners had to be housed somewhere. One of those places was Chicago. Not the Chicago of today, with wrought iron wrapping around every building, street and vacant lot. Not the Chicago of flowers choking in the... Read more »
Hayes Applauds Rejection of Gitmo Transfer to Thompson
2010-05-22 20:48:00 From the Hayes for Congress campaign (2nd District)... CHICAGO: Republican nominee for Illinois 2nd Congressional District Isaac Hayes released the following statement today following the House Armed Services Committee rejects the plan to shift terror detainees to Illinois: "I applaud the House Armed Services Committee for unanimously approving legislation that bans spending on any facility inside the United States to house Guantánamo detainees. From the very beginning this ridiculous idea was opposed by the American people. At a time when the federal government refuses to do anything to secure our borders, transplanting high-risk terrorists near Chicago would have resulted in a welcome mat for Al-Qaeda. These terrorists should remain exactly where they are - far from the American people...
There'll Be No Gitmo, Illinois Congress Says
2010-05-22 00:54:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In an interesting development the House Armed Services Committee unanimously approved of legislation that would block Gitmo, Illinois from coming to fruition. In fact, they've blocked any Gitmo terrorist from being transferred anywhere into the interior of the USA. This is a blow to Obama's desires to shut Gitmo down and to bring terrorists to a prison near you. Wednesday the committee approved a defense bill for 2011 that includes language to prevent moving detainees into any US facility inside our borders and also blocked any funding to even study the possibility....
Most Illinois voters oppose Gitmo transfers to Thomson.
2009-12-12 21:01:00 Fifty-one percent of Illinois voters oppose relocating some suspected terrorists from the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba to a prison in their state. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 39% of voters in the state favor housing the prisoners at the Thomson Correctional Center, a near-empty maximum security facility 150 miles west of Chicago. Ten percent (10%) are not sure. The full story is here....
Send the Salahis to Gitmo
2009-11-29 17:21:00 Now comes word that the couple that crashed the White House state dinner are peddling their story for the mid-six figures.The media say they don't pay for news, but Michaele and Tareq Salahithis will be their big test. Will they show some professionalism and tell them no?Tell them to go directly to jail, do not pass go and do not collect your $500,000.As astonishing as the break-down in White House security was, the public's (and media's) fascination with this couple is troubling. What they did was wrong and we're supposed to reward them with our interest and money? If they have to go on a reality show, put them on one with Rod Blagojevich, where they can compete for the...
Little Gitmo on the prairie?
2009-11-14 22:23:00 Tribune photo by Lane ChristiansenThe Tribune reports today that the Thomson Correctional Center in Carroll County is being considered as a possible destination for prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay. The Thomson Correctional Center was completed in 2001 at a cost of $145 million, right before the state's budget fell apart. Built to hold 1,600 maximum-security prisoners, it currently houses fewer than 200 minimum-security inmates. Carroll County, and particularly the town of Thomson, have suffered because of the failure of the prison to ever fully open:Thomson Village Board President Jerry Hebeler said Thomson "is like a ghost town" and many projects, including a subdivision planned because of the prison, were put on hold because the facility never was fully opened.The...
On GITMO, Once Again, We?re Not Even Discussing Reality
2009-08-04 02:41:00 Similar to the point I made over the weekend about most of the health care debate missing the point, that it should be about individual liberty, not about cost savings or sad-sack stories about people in need (a point, of course, even better made by Mark Steyn in the NRO piece to which I linked), ...
By: GayPatriot
Senator Pat Roberts Condemns Moving Gitmo Detainees to Ft. Leavenworth; Rej
2009-08-04 00:57:00 Senator Pat RobertsMP3 for PODCAST VIDEO REAL MEDIA FORMATWASHINGTON, DC ? Senator Pat Roberts today condemned the notion of moving the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Ft. Leavenworth, KS amid Obama Administration statements saying Ft. Leavenworth is under consideration not only to house the detainees, but also to be the site for the federal criminal trials and military commissions to prosecute terrorism suspects.The news broke yesterday that the Administration was looking for one site for the facility and that either Ft. Leavenworth or a maximum-security prison in Standish, Michigan are the two options."Today I spoke with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee PolicyPhilip Carter," Senator Roberts said. "I expressed my extreme displeasure with the rumor that Ft. Leavenworth is under consideration. The 100 most dangerous terrorists in the world will not be moved to Ft. Leavenworth on my watch."Moving terrorists to the intellectual center of the Army at...
Open Thread Friday At The GTL? ? Michael Jackson? Obama Waffling On Indefi
2009-06-27 04:42:00 Readers And Commentators -slash- Co-Bloggers — Your Turn To Set The Agenda Once Again Really, I don’t have writer’s block today — I could write several essays -slash- columns on a variety of topics but I really don’t know where to begin. On the plus side, the last... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Troop-A-Thon: Honor Their Service
2009-06-04 14:15:00 http://www.troopathon.org “The goal of this charity fundraiser is to send the largest ever shipment of care packages to our brave men and women of the armed forces serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.”
Cheney-Bush White House Whistleblower: My Counterpoint To Legality Of Chene
2009-05-07 05:28:00 That’s Right, Folks — Former Counselor To Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow Was Convinced Dick “Shotgun” Cheney Was “The Evil Shredder” Mother Jones is reporting Mr. Zelikow’s memo, which never appeared in the Cheney-Bush documents... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
President Obama To Open Telecommunications And Travel To And From Cuba
2009-04-14 03:21:00 Republicans, Predictably: He’s Gone Too Far!!! — Democrats, Predictably: He’s Not Gone Far Enough!!! Well, well, WELL — President Barack Hussein Obama has kept yet another of his campaign promises (The New York Times): Cubans will soon be able to travel, send money and gifts... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Spain Goes After Former AG Alberto Gonzales And Former Justice Department L
2009-03-29 04:53:00 “Just Don’t Leave U.S. Soil And You’ll Be Okay” Say Legal Experts To Yoo, Gonzales, And Others Under Spain’s Microscope For Their “Creative” Works In Guantanamo Bay “I want these terr’ists tortured“, demanded then President Bush. Dick... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
FORMER Vice President Dick ?Shotgun? Cheney: I Predict The Obama Utopia Wit
2009-02-05 03:33:00 “Shotgun”: Turning The Other Cheek Is For Wussies… Folks, when I read the headline from The Politico entitled “Cheney warns of new attacks”, my first thought was “Oh, my God — NO! PLEASE! No more heart attacks for this nation’s most popular vice... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee joins al-Qaida in Yemen
2009-01-23 14:58:00 Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee joins al-Qaida in Yemen CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Internet posting purportedly by al-Qaida in Yemen says the group’s No. 2 is a Saudi national who is a former Guantanamo detainee. The Yemeni group - known as “al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula” - posted the statement this week on a militant Web site ...
By: TexasFred's
Murtha, Gitmo, and the Hole in the Tree gang
2009-01-23 00:39:00 Congressman Murtha again shows his ignorance of his own district when he offers to house Gitmo prisoners in his Congressional district in Pennsylavania. WASHINGTON (AP) ? A top House Democrat who is a leading critic of the Iraq war says he would have no qualms about transferring Guantanamo detainees to a prison in his Pennsylvania district. Suspected ...
Judge grants Obama request to suspend Gitmo trial
2009-01-21 17:30:00 Judge grants Obama request to suspend Gitmo trial GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A judge on Wednesday quickly granted President Barack Obama’s request to suspend the war crimes trial of a young Canadian in what may be the beginning of the end for the Bush administration’s system of trying alleged terrorists. The judge, Army ...
By: TexasFred's
Obama Halts Gitmo Prosecutions & Pending Bush Regulations
2009-01-21 14:35:00 Among his first official acts as President, Barack Obama has suspended all prosecutions of Guantanamo Bay detainees for 120 days. He has also put a halt to any and all last-minute Bush Administration regulatory changes, pending review. Because of the legally uncertain and morally dubious status of the ...
By: BuffaloPundit
America is a Nation of Laws
2008-12-10 12:39:00 This is encouraging? A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama’s top legal advisers Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn seven years of Bush administration policies on detention, interrogation and rendition in the war on terror. “President-elect Obama has said that Americans do not engage in torture, that we must send a message to the world ...
The Gitmo Trials ? A Pointless Exercise In Futility?
2008-08-08 04:44:00 The first trial of a suspected terrorist held at the less than luxurious hotel in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has now concluded. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver for Osama bin Laden, has been found guilty. This was not really much of a surprise. He openly admitted that he took a job driving Osama around, and ...
Scalia?s Mistake
2008-06-22 22:30:00 A new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law debunks the myth that released GITMO prisoners have killed Americans. On June 12, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia?s dissenting opinion on the [Boumediene] ruling stated that ?[a]t least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantánamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.? The statistic was ...
Habeas Corpus
2008-06-19 13:42:00 George Will has an excellent column in the Washington Post about the Supreme Court?s recent 5-4 decision to allow detainees at Guantanamo to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges. The purpose of a writ of habeas corpus is to cause a government to release a prisoner or show through due process why the prisoner should be ...
9/11 Defendants Charged by U.S. Military at Gitmo
2008-06-05 21:59:00 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba - A military court at this remote U.S. outpost is in the process of a grinding hearing in which five Sept. 11 plotters are being charged with murdering 2,973 Americans. It’s the first time Al Qaeda “military commander” Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, facilitator Ramzi Binalshibh, USS Cole mastermind Walid Ba Attash, and money men Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al-Hawsawi have been seen publicly since their individual captures. I was in the courtroom for...(read more)
Gitmo Hearing For 9/11 Mastermind Begins
2008-06-05 20:55:00 The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and his co-conspirators appeared today in a Gitmo courtroom for the start of their military tribunal. All five defendants face execution if found guilty. Mohammed told the court today that he welcomes death ...
By: The Hot Joints
Gitmo ex-prosecutor claims retaliation
2008-05-30 04:02:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The former chief prosecutor of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Thursday that he was denied a service medal for criticizing the trial process. Last week, Air Force Col.
By: Get rich
Former Gitmo Detainee Carries Out Suicide Bombing In Iraq
2008-05-08 02:02:00 Liberals love to describe the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as basically a ‘house of horrors’ where innocent people are tortured and kept in a dungeon for years at a time. The left would have the world believe that George Bush and his barbarians are keeping poor innocent Muslims locked away without access to lawyers or ...
By: The Hot Joints
Ex-Gitmo prisoner commits suicide attack
2008-05-07 22:48:00 The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a northern Iraq" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/-id/24504862/">former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. A spokesman for U.S. military's Central Command told The Associated Press that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul. U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye said authorities don't know the motive for the attack, which was reported last week by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television. Iraqi security forces were apparently targeted. What?? You mean to tell me that liberals lied to me when they said almost everyone in Guantanamo Bay was innocent? According to them, there's almost no one in Gitmo that's guilty of anything, and that these are merely people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I find it very difficult to believe that Gitmo might actually have some actual terrorists in their cells! The U.S. transferred al-Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo in 2...
Released Gitmo Detainee Blows Himself Up in Iraq, Libs Surprised
2008-05-07 21:15:00 Great work, liberals. This guy couldn?t have done it without you. The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq.
Going Gonzo In Gitmo
2008-05-01 16:53:00 A recent headline in the International Herald Tribune (IHT) read: “Guantanamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers say.” Different people will respond to such a headline in different ways. For instance, liberal peacenik types won’t be able to get through the article without an ample supply of Kleenex. Heartless conservatives on the other hand ...
Gitmo Torture Orders Came From The Top
2008-04-24 17:29:00 Sudhan @17:30 CET The author of ?The Torture Tapes? describes how coercive interrogation came to be the policy of the United States government. Scott Norton |The New Republic | Post Date Tuesday, April 22, 2008 British writer and international lawyer Philippe Sands is the author of The Torture Team , in stores May 5, which chronicles the role ...
By: Suzie-Q
No Go To Gitmo Show Claims Saudi Prisoner
2008-04-11 09:18:00 A prisoner being held in Guantanamo bluntly told the military tribunal which was going to put him on trial that he would not participate in the charade known as a trial. Ahmded Al-Darbi, a relative of one of the September 11 hjackers told the pretrial hearing he does not want a lawyer and he will ...
Jack Bauer Named Gitmo Torture Idol (Vanity Fair)
2008-04-09 12:47:00 Anyone who's switched on a TV in the past seven years knows how hard Jack Bauer is. Women love him. Men want to be him. But here's a fact you may not of known about him.
By: Roastfrog.net
Feith: Not So Nice Talking About Torture
2008-04-03 19:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST Feith: Only “Assholes” Fret about Torture By Paul Kiel - April 2, 2008, 3:32PM It won’t surprise anyone that the least sympathetic portrayal in Phillipe Sands’ Vanity Fair piece is of former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith. Not only did Feith play a major hand in promoting the ...
By: Suzie-Q
A Glimpse Of Life Inside Gitmo
2008-04-03 13:00:00 The Los Angeles Times gives a glimpse into the life of detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay. Most of the details are the standard things that you’d expect for a high security prison where prisoners are kept away from each other to prevent problems. Writes Carol J. Williams about the one entertainment option available for Guantanamo detainees — reading books from the Gitmo library: More than 2,000 books and magazines in 18 languages are stocked for the prisoners, each vetted for its potential to incite. The ” Harry Potter” series had been the most popular selection before a recent influx of nature and music books. At the new Camp 7 facility for high-value detainees — which jailers have dubbed “the platinum camp” — the book most in demand now is “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” a nearly 20-year-old treatise by Stephen R. Covey. The librarian, who didn’t want to be identified, said books are inspected by ...
5 Out of 6 Secretaries of State Agree - Close Gitmo!
2008-03-28 20:41:00 The University of Georgia hosted a roundtable discussion this week that was comprised of the 5 former Secretaries of State; Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. During the discussion they quickly reached a consensus that the detention/torture facility at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay should be ...
By: Daily Nonsense
A G MUKASEY -DON?T EXECUTE GITMO TERRORISTS
2008-03-14 23:33:00 U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks aren?t executed if found guilty in order to avoid creating any martyrs.Mukasey said many terrorists want to be martyrs and that by sentencing them to death, U.S. authorities risk granting that wish. ? READ MORE HERE ...
Gitmo detainees allowed phone calls
2008-03-12 12:00:00 What part of “enemy combatant” do they not understand? What’s next? regular visits? TV? internet? Yahoo News GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six ...
Rigged Trials at Gitmo
2008-02-21 15:21:00 The Nation According to Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantanamo's military commissions, the process has been manipulated by Administration appointees to foreclose the possibility of acquittal. Colonel Davis's criticism of the commissions has been escalating since he resigned in October, telling the Washington Post that he had been pressured by politically appointed senior Defense officials to pursue cases deemed "sexy" and of "high interest" (such as the 9/11 cases now being pursued) in the run-up to the 2008 elections. Davis, once a staunch defender of the commissions process, elaborated on his reasons in a December 10, 2007, Los Angeles Times op-ed. "I concluded that full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system," he wrote. "I felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively." Then, in an interview with The Nation in February after the six Guantánamo detainees were charged, Davis off...
Rigged Trials at Gitmo
2008-02-21 11:04:00 Sudhan @11:05 CET Ross Tuttle | The Nation, Feb. 20, 2008 Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon?s announcement on February 11 ...
By: Suzie-Q
Gitmo Trials Rigged
2008-02-20 15:32:00 by Ross Tuttle Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon’s announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo ...
By: Current Era Blog
Pentagon Seeks Death Penalty For 9/11 Suspects
2008-02-11 20:54:00 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehotjoints.-com%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2Fpentagon--seeks-death-penalty-for-911-su-spects%2F'; addthis_title = 'Pentagon+Seeks+Death+Penalty+F-or+9%2F11+Suspects'; addthis_pub = ''; Related Posts“Flying Imams” Lawsuit Upheld Against US AirwaysEgyptian FM Threatens To “Break Legs” If Palestinians Breach Border AgainJose Padilla Sentenced To 17 YearsLittle Bin Laden Wants To Be A Peace ActivistFormer GOP Lawmaker Charged in Terror ...
By: The Hot Joints
Official: U.S. to seek death penalty for 6 Gitmo detainees
2008-02-11 15:21:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suspects in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. official said.
By: Get rich
Secret Evidence Bogs Down Gitmo Hearings
2008-02-09 10:11:00 The secrecy shrouding government files on terror suspects is bogging down the Pentagon's effort to hold trials at Guantanamo Bay, with defense attorneys accusing the government of withholding potential evidence.
By: Get rich
Coming Soon: Gitmo in Iraq?
2008-01-27 10:53:00 by Jayne Lyn Stahl At a time when there is widespread agreement, even among the president's men, to shut down the pernicious detention camp at the southeast end of Cuba at Guantanamo Bay, an accord is in the works by Bush & Co. to do in Iraq what the Platt Amendment did in Cuba a century ago at the close of the Spanish-American War. It is, you'll recall, largely thanks to the Platt Amendment that the U.S. was given entitlement to send troops to Cuba, meddle in that country's internal affairs, and establish a permanent U.S. protectorate, and naval base, at Gitmo. Reportedly, the U.S. is exploring the prospect of an agreement with the Iraqi government for "establishment of a legal basis for U.S. military operations in Iraq," (Bloomberg News) and the very real possibility that, a hundred years from now, we may witness yet another Gitmo, only this time within shooting range of Baghdad. And, it is also reported that this plan will have built in prot...
Happy Birthday to Gitmo: An astrological reading
2008-01-13 00:59:00 Wow. I feel so honoured to share my birthday (yesterday) with Guantanamo Bay. Indymedia:JANUARY 11, 2008 -- On the day six years ago that the first prisoners began arriving at the U.S. torture camp at Guantánamo, protests were staged across the country and around the world demanding that Guantanamo be shut down. Prisoners are kept in Guantanamo under horrific conditions for years without trial.That makes good old Gitmo a Capricorn, just like me. I think I'd like to offer an astrological reading, modified from wikipedia, which informs us that "According to astrological beliefs, celestial phenomena reflect or govern human activity on the principle of 'as above, so below', so that the twelve signs at the same time are held to represent twelve basic personality types or characteristic modes of expression." Celestial phenomena say that Gitmo is ambitious, and hard-working. (After all, those dang prisoners won't torture themselves.) It is methodical and focused, businesslike and perse...
By: Red Jenny
Gitmo Protesters Arrested at Supreme Court
2008-01-12 07:15:00 81 protesters arrested at Supreme Court WASHINGTON - Eighty people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Protesters dressed in orange jump suits bearing the logo of Amnesty International demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in London in a protest calling for ...
ACLU Announces ?Close Guantánamo? Campaign
2008-01-10 20:30:00 The hideous organization known as the ACLU is launching its “Close Guantanamo” campaign on Jan. 11 to coincide with the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at the facility. As with all left-wing campaigns, people are encouraged to wear something, in this case orange to symbolize solidarity with the terrorist killers. The ACLU is hosting ...
By: The Hot Joints
Go Directly To Jihad, Do Not Pass Gitmo [Digg]
2008-01-03 15:45:00 Released GTMO detainee implicated in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Liberals: Another American atrocity at Gitmo
2007-12-28 22:20:00 Libtoids just can’t get enough. Any story that makes the enemy look like a victim is typical from the average western liberal. This story labels America an “evil regime” and, the convicted terrorist, a victim of horrible torturous treatment on par with the that of an evil, oppressive dictatorship. These liberal freaks don’t care that he’s ...
Huckabee: Gitmo Is ?Too Nice?
2007-12-23 21:11:00 [From: From The Road] From CBS News’ Joy Lin and Mary Hood: DAVENPORT, IA - Asked about Guantanamo, Mike Huckabee said he had visited the facility and said it was ?disappointing? that military personnel were eating meals that averaged $1.60 while the detainees were eating Halal meals that cost over $4 each. ?The inmates there were ...
By: News for Greens
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