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Holder Blames Congress Before Announcing Plan to Hold Military Tribunals for 9/11 Terror Suspects

April 4th, 2011 · No Comments

Only after claiming Congressional interference played a pivotal role in his decision, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today he will use military tribunals to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other alleged 9/11 terrorists. AG Holder’s decision comes barely two years after President Barack Obama’s Jan. 22, 2009, announcement that he would close the Guantanamo [...]

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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat: Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a [...]

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If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue (Updated)

May 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

By Bob McCarty Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty Writes. All rights reserved. To request reprint permission, send an e-mail to BobMcCartyWrites (at) gmail (dot) com. The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today [...]

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‘ESCAPE FROM GITMO’ Film Set for 2010 Release

January 28th, 2009 · No Comments

It appears the folks over at The Astute Bloggers got their hands on some advance promotional materials from an action thriller being produced by President Barack Obama via Obama Productions. Under the working title, “CON AIR 2: ESCAPE FROM GITMO,” this film’s plot is based on the following premise: WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED FROM GITMO TO [...]

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GITMO Detainees Likely to Thank MLK, Allah

January 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

If President Barack Obama succeeds in shutting down Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within 12 months, he will be tempted to describe himself as an emancipator in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.  Unfortunately, as shown in the My Personal Litmus cartoon above, the terror suspects who will inevitably be released from “GITMO” as a result of [...]

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Obama Announces GITMO ‘Going Out of Business’

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Early this afternoon, President Barack Obama made the much-anticipated announcement that the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station will close within 12 months.  Not surprisingly, a humorous parody television commercial about the GITMO “Going-Out-of-Business Sale” — sale date TBD — is already making the rounds. Sadly, the humor dissolves when one starts [...]

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Hate Hurts America Hates Free Speech

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This morning, the Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition used a news release to tackle two objectives. While the “headline” objective was to announce that HHA had launched a re-designed website, the primary objective seems to have been reminding the world that HHA members think Michael Savage is targeting Muslims with on-air “hate speech” [...]

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