With a stroke of his pen, President Obama today extinguished any last lingering hopes that his administration would eventually do the right thing on Guantanamo and restore due process rights to all the detainees held there. In an Executive Order and accompanying fact sheet and press release, the White House formally announced the resumption of […]
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