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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Movie Review
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay reunites everyone's favorite stoners on a cross country ride that leaves you laughing at the characters, the people next to you and even yourself. The movie begins by doing the one thing that sequels rarely do: continue the story where the original left off. It literally begins with Harold in the shower getting ready to see his true love in Amsterdam and Kumar taking a massive dump while he's doing it.Mich. prison assessed for possible Gitmo transfers
STANDISH, Mich. – Federal and state officials visited a maximum-security prison in rural Michigan on Thursday to begin assessing its suitability to house Guantanamo Bay detainees. About a dozen state officials were joined by 18 representatives from the Defense, Justice and Homeland Security departments and the Bureau of Prisons on the tour of the lockup in Standish, said Russ Marlan, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.Truths About Guantanamo Bay - from inside the Bush Administration
Lawrence B. Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/?ref=fp2) There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, thus, of which the American people are almost completely unaware.Holder's Decision "Reasonable"
Jim Comey, a deputy attorney general and U.S. attorney in Manhattan during the Bush administration, is general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corp. Jack Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general during the Bush administration, teaches at Harvard Law School and is on the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law.Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Yahoo says: "Harold and Kumar are in their apartment after they have successfully completed their White Castle quest. It is only an hour or two later, and the guys are preparing for an epic adventure to Amsterdam so that Harold can win the heart of his crush, Maria. At the airport, Kumar runs into his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, and he's shocked to discover she's about to get married.Musicians crank up the volume on Guantanamo debate
WASHINGTON — A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music — including theirs — was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama's push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba. Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails are among the musicians who have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which launched Tuesday. On behalf of the campaign, the National Security Archive in Washington is filing a Freedom of Information Act request seeking classified records that detail the use of loud music as an interrogation device.Obama plays, GITMO stays
Obama's Gitmo blame game Greg Craig, the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama, is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January — so much so that he’s expected to leave the White House in short order. But sources familiar with the process believe Craig is being set-up as the fall guy and say the blame for missing the deadline extends well beyond him. Instead, it was a widespread breakdown on the political, legislative, policy and planning fronts that contributed to what is shaping up as one of Obama’s most high-profile setbacks, these people say.Is SNL right that Obama's accomplished 'nothing'?
This is an opinion piece that I just happened to find interesting. I know there has been a lot of Obama bashing since Chicago lost the Olympics, but I didn't see the SNL piece until stuff started showing up on the internet. I'm just interested to hear everyone's opinions on the topic.We are to be sued by Detainee
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8224357.stm
Young Guantanamo Afghan to sue US
One of the youngest detainees held at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay will sue the United States for compensation, his lawyers say.
Mohammed Jawad was released and arrived in his native Afghanistan earlier this week. His family says he was 12 at the time of his detention in 2002.
Ex-Guantanamo detainee's failure to reenter society leads to deadly attack
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran The Washington Post updated 1:25 a.m. CT, Mon., Feb. 23, 2009 KUWAIT CITY - After arriving here from Guantanamo Bay in November 2005, Abdallah Saleh al-Ajmi was transported by Kuwaiti security agents to a military hospital, where he was allowed to meet with his family.
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