Comments on: Transcript Of President Obama’s Speech About Guantánamo And Terrorism, May 21, 2009

By: Leshawn Thomas

Leshawn Thomas — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:55:52 +0000

According to a recent poll, only 82% of Democrats would re-elect Barack Obama if they could vote today. They voted for hope and ended up with change.

By: Guantánamo: Obama Turns Clock Back To Days Of Bush’s Kangaroo Courts « Eurasia Review

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:20:10 +0000

[...] was surprising, because the President announced in May 2009, during a major speech on national security at the National Archives, that the Military Commissions were back on the table, joining federal [...]

By: Militant Libertarian » Cleared for Release and Still in Limbo

Militant Libertarian » Cleared for Release and Still in Limbo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:27:09 +0000

[...] a major national-security speech, he described these prisoners as those who “cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to [...]

By: 116 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 171 Still In Limbo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:33:30 +0000

[...] a major national security speech, he described these prisoners as those who “cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to [...]

By: Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:50:04 +0000

[...] then, that, just a month after Carter joined the Obama administration, the President announced, in a major national security speech, that the Commissions were back on the table, and Carter then watched, two weeks ago, as Attorney [...]

By: The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:54:48 +0000

[...] the proposed revival of the Commissions since May, when President Obama first announced it in a major speech on national security, and I remain as confused and depressed about the proposals as I did back then. Glenn Greenwald has [...]

By: Federalist Paupers » Blog Archive

Federalist Paupers » Blog Archive — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:58:57 +0000

[...] drop the ball for the next three years and elect a new president who wavers between being a cynical bastard and being a completely reckless pie-in-the-sky lefty nutcase, as we’re seeing [...]

By: Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize + OK, He’s A Nice Guy, But … by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:33:19 +0000

[...] the Nobel Peace Prize to be given to a man who, although he ordered the closure of Guantánamo and recognizes that it “set back the moral authority” that, in his opinion, “is America’s strongest [...]

By: Congressional Depravity on Gitmo « freedetainees.org

Congressional Depravity on Gitmo « freedetainees.org — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:56:23 +0000

[...] ability to close Guantánamo at all, Holder was echoing important points made by President Obama in a major national security speech in May, when he stated: [W]e will be ill-served by some of the fear-mongering that emerges whenever [...]

By: Lawyer Blasts “Congressional Depravity” On Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:29:47 +0000