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The Daily Progress
March 26, 2018
She is credibly reported to have been the boss there when a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged planner of the deadly attack against ... the Bush administration used the Orwellian term "enhanced interrogation techniques," perhaps in an attempt to convince those implementing the policyÃâà...
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 20, 2018
That's what Cheney will say. He will say that the policy was entirely legal, and therefore also just. He is factually wrong, legally wrong, and morally wrong. … It's politics. Political power drives the decision.” While Margulies complained that “the first line” in his obituary will most likely mention Rasul v. BushÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 14, 2018
That set the standard for Obama's tenure, as all avenues of accountability for Bush-era torture were curtailed. A Justice Department inquiry into interrogators who broke even the “acceptable torture” guidelines ended with no charges. Civil lawsuits from former detainees were blocked when the Obama-eraÃâà...
Pacific Standard
March 13, 2018
When questions began to swirl about the Bush administration's use of the "black sites," and program of "enhanced interrogation," the chief of base began pushing to have the tapes destroyed. She accomplished her mission years later when she rose to a senior position at CIA headquarters and drafted anÃâà...
Las Vegas Sun
February 19, 2018
The new executive order revokes the Obama administration's official policy to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay “as soon as practicable” and paves the way for ... The United States has already transferred more than 700 detainees to foreign partners during the Obama and Bush administrations.
Fredericksburg.com
February 16, 2018
The new executive order revokes the Obama administration's official policy to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay “as soon as practicable” and paves the way for ... The United States has already transferred more than 700 detainees to foreign partners during the Obama and Bush administrations.
The Tand D.com
February 14, 2018
The new executive order revokes the Obama administration's official policy to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay “as soon as practicable” and paves the way for ... The United States has already transferred more than 700 detainees to foreign partners during the Obama and Bush administrations.
InsideSources
February 13, 2018
The new executive order revokes the Obama administration's official policy to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay “as soon as practicable” and paves the way for ... The United States has already transferred more than 700 detainees to foreign partners during the Obama and Bush administrations.
Miami Herald
February 12, 2018
Detainee art is no longer on display after the Pentagon declared the captives' artwork U.S. government property and halted releases to the public. ... So much so that Pentagon policy separates media opportunities between trips to cover the court and trips to ask questions about detention operations.
Toledo Blade
February 9, 2018
The detention center, which is made up of several military prison facilities, was established in 2002 by President George W. Bush's administration, as a .... During the Obama-era, critics of the policies under which detainees were released from Guantanamo cited unsubstantiated figures indicating that 30Ãâà...
Newsweek
February 8, 2018
Thus, President Bush's legal advisers worried that if detainees in the post-9/11 conflicts could find their way into US courts, the policies of torture and indefinite detention would be invalidated. GettyImages-92477338 A group of detainees kneels during an early morning Islamic prayer in their camp at theÃâà...
Defense One
February 5, 2018
Mattis, who prizes boldness and whose command history shows no tendency for reinforcing failure, will likely recommend a break with the dead-end Bush and Obama detention policies. When he does, will President Trump and Congress abandon campaign rhetoric and act in the national interest? My hopeÃâà...
Miami Herald
February 4, 2018
The Executive Order revoked President Barack Obama's closure order and instructed Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to develop a policy for bringing new captives here — essentially ending Obama's moratorium on new arrivals. “They don't care about how many new detainees are going to come here toÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
February 1, 2018
During his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump announced that he had signed an executive order to keep the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, open. America must “continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists, wherever we chase them down, wherever weÃâà...
The Daily Freeman
December 31, 1999
She is credibly reported to have been the boss there when a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged planner of the deadly attack against ... the Bush administration used the Orwellian term “enhanced interrogation techniques,” perhaps in an attempt to convince those implementing the policyÃâà...
Asbury Park Press
December 31, 1999
This obscene chapter in our history took place during the George W. Bush administration. For a time, Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA's secret overseas prisons — a "black site" located in Thailand. She is credibly reported to have been the boss there when a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,Ãâà...
Anniston Star
December 31, 1999
This obscene chapter in our history took place during the George W. Bush administration. For a time, Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA's secret overseas prisons -- a "black site" located in Thailand. She is credibly reported to have been the boss there when a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,Ãâà...
Slate Magazine
December 31, 1999
U.S. President George W. Bush and Ambassador to the UN John Bolton meet in the Oval Office of the White House December 4, 2006 in Washington, DC. ... In 2016, they elected one who distinguished himself from his Republican rivals by describing the Iraq war as a blunder and Bush's foreign policy asÃâà...
