Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent September 29, 2009. “We expressed our views to the attorney general, and he did express the fact that he shared those goals with us.”
Ari Melber, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. June 27, 2009. According to a new Washington Post/ProPublica piece, Obama is drafting a new executive order to reassert authority over indefinite detention.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 29, 2009. Congressional cowardice has not gone unnoticed on the international stage. It's a real problem.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. May 26, 2009. The president also got a boost on Sunday when former Secretary of State Colin Powell came to his defense on both subjects
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2009. Blatant dishonesty for partisan gain is much easier to understand than rampant stupidity among leading federal lawmakers.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. May 22, 2009. The reinvigorated RNC, focused on the future, immediately cut an ad that referenced a 1964 ad from Lyndon Johnson?
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2009. "So the record is clear: rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security."
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Media and Technology. March 13, 2009. "The Obama Administration today dropped the term "enemy combatant" to describe those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. February 26, 2009. America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
Mark Townsend, Paul Harris, Independent UK. February 9, 2009. Dozens of hunger strikes, beatings, instances of forced feeding and other atrocities have reportedly reduced Guantanamo to near chaos.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 12, 2009. Just how quickly will Obama move on closing Guantanamo? Apparently, we can expect action very soon.
anthony romero, ACLU Northern California AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 11, 2008. An insider's look at unconstitutional military commissions.
