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Facts and Myths about Obama's Preventive Detention Proposal

By Glenn Greenwald

In the wake of Obama's speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new converts who now support indefinite "preventive detention." It thus seems constructive to have as dispassionate and fact-based discussion as possible of the implications of "preventive detention" and Obama's related detention proposals (military commissions).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22688.htm



Indefinite Detention? Shame on you... President Obama

By Rachel Maddow

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22690.htm



Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Some

President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104045_pf.html


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