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Frances Robles - Miami Herald - July 24.
Josh Gerstein - Politico - July 24.
Keith Bonnell, Montreal Gazette - July 25.
WP - July 25.
NYT - July 24.
Firedoglake - July 24.
Marcy Wheeler - Firedoglake - July 23.
Andy Worthington- 7/15/2010
Jason Ukman, Peter Finn- 7/15/2010- Washington Post, Checkpoint Washington Blog
Macy Wheeler- 7/15/2010- Firedoglake
July 26, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
This weekend, friend of the Close Gitmo Campaign Marcy Wheeler moderated a panel on closing Gitmo and using the legal system to prosecute terrorism at the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas. Panelists featured are Rep. Jerry Nadler, VoteVets.org's Matt Alexander, blogger/journalist Adam Serwer and Center for Constitutional Rights' Vince Warren. Read More »
July 20, 2010 | Posted by Dianne Feinstein
Our federal courts are unmatched at putting terrorism suspects on trial, collecting intelligence when possible and sending them away for good. Read More »
June 08, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
It’s time for the progressive movement to rise to this challenge and counter this pressure from conservatives to set our foreign policy on a new path -- starting with the escalating war in Afghanistan. Read More »
May 05, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
When it comes to the 2nd Amendment and your right to pack a Colt .45 everywhere you go, just in case you need to shoot something, right wingers will back you to the end. Which, when everyone is armed, could come rather quickly. But if Joe Lieberman and John McCain get their way, the Constitution and its guarantee of basic rights will become optional. And when Glenn Beck becomes the most rational voice on the Right, you know we've taken a wrong turn... Read More »
April 15, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
Senate Republicans continued playing politics in their attacks on Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday as he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But key members like Senator Dianne Feinstein pushed back and set the record straight. Read More »
April 14, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
New Security Action members sent over 45,000 letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats telling them to stand up for justice and stand with Holder. Did they get the message? Watch Secretary Holder's testimony live at http://bit.ly/bY4faA Read More »
April 08, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
A former UN envoy to Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith, recently became the second former diplomat to recommend that the United States begin to withdraw from Afghanistan. And, like former State Department official Matthew Hoh before him, Galbraith describes in an OpEd in today's Washington Post the futility of our endeavor to prop up the incredibly un-credible President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. Read More »
April 07, 2010 | Posted by Tom Andrews
When it comes to Afghanistan, “military victory” is an oxymoron. Even President Obama and his Defense Secretary Robert Gates say so. Repeatedly. The only path to peaceful resolution to the Afghanistan conundrum, they point out, is by winning the “hearts and minds” of the Afghan people. That is why the grim news from Afghanistan about a cover up of the a botched US military raid of a baby shower near Gardez is so devastating... Read More »
Frances Robles - Miami Herald - July 24.
Josh Gerstein - Politico - July 24.
Keith Bonnell, Montreal Gazette - July 25.
WP - July 25.
NYT - July 24.
Firedoglake - July 24.
Marcy Wheeler - Firedoglake - July 23.
Andy Worthington- 7/15/2010
Jason Ukman, Peter Finn- 7/15/2010- Washington Post, Checkpoint Washington Blog
Macy Wheeler- 7/15/2010- Firedoglake
