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    Apr 6, 2009 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  1. Returning war dead: A reappearing image

    The Swamp
    by Mark Silva The flag-draped coffin of Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va., who was 30 and the victim of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, arrived late last night at Dover Air Force Base in Maryland. It was......

    Tags: Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Social Issues, International Military Interventions

    2. Apr 16, 2009 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  2. Richard Armitage: Bush's CIA tortured

    The Swamp
    by Mark Silva Richard Armitage, who served as chief deputy to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says now that he would have resigned if he had known that the CIA was interrogating suspected terrorists with "water-boarding,'' that simulated drowning....

    Tags: Heads of State, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice

    3. Dec 16, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Whereas at last Obama officially publishes said memo creating Gitmo North in Illinois of all places

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    Full text of Democrat president's historic memo with accompanying commentary in same style....
    4. May 7, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  4. Feedback for Wednesday, May 8

    Local high schools recognized nationally Seven local public high schools are ranked among the top 2,000 in the nation, according to an online list released by Newsweek magazine Monday. More than 5,000 schools were invited to participate and nearly 2,...

    Tags: Elections, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Barack Obama, High Schools

    5. Jun 29, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  5. Hagerstown sets new weather record with hottest day ever in June

    A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday.
    caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.com
    A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday. The temperature reached 100.7 degrees at 3:57 p.m., the hottest day in June ever recorded in Hagerstown, according to i4weather.net, a website operated by local weather observer Greg Keefer. It...

    Tags: Swimming, Fishing Forecast, Sports

    6. Dec 14, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'Liberty'

    Most Americans would probably agree with the 19th century abolitionist Wendell Phillips that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But our vigilance has been erratic, and we have paid the price for our inattention. This nation's history is littered...

    Tags: Mitt Romney, Heads of State, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Elections

    7. Jan 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. A voice from Gitmo's darkness

    JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed unclassified by the Department of Defense.
    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba — I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen. In January 2002, I was picked up in Pakistan,...

    Tags: Cuba, Social Issues, Pakistan, Death, Abusive Behavior

    8. Nov 11, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  8. Local veterans organizations place wreaths at the memorial in Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park

    More than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or retirement dates.
    dona@herald-mail.com
    More than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or...

    Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Human Interest, Television Industry, Veterans Day, Vietnam War (1955-1975)

    9. Jun 2, 2009 |Story| Associated Press
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    Tags: Heads of State, Same-Sex Marriage, U.S. Military, Death, Crime, Law and Justice

    10. Oct 12, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. The shadow of Gitmo

    Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent to international opinion established -- in a territory they wrongly thought was beyond the reach of law -- a prison camp whose inmates comprised both dangerous terrorists and bystanders caught up in the post-9/11 dragnet in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent...

    Tags: Heads of State, Disasters and Accidents, U.S. Military, Air and Space Accidents, The Washington Post

    11. Dec 10, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. How to try terrorists

    In confessing <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guantanamo-plea9-2008dec09%2C0%2C5787969.story">responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, </a> Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/10/national/main4250100.shtml">almost 3,000 </a> people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by a realization that the way these "high value" detainees have been treated has sullied this country's reputation. It will be up to President-elect Barack Obama to repair the damage.
    In confessing responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed almost 3,000 people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by...

    Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency, Death, Crime, Law and Justice

    12. Dec 9, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. The Supreme Court's habeas hearing

    Afew months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government transported almost 700 suspected terrorists who had been captured abroad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where the Bush administration assumed -- wrongly -- that they would have no...

    Tags: Court Administration, India, Justice System, Antonin Scalia, U.S. Military

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