John Boehner (R-Clueless):
House Minority Leader John Boehner said Tuesday that the Obama administration’s plan to move some Guantanamo detainees to Illinois shows that the White House “must’ve forgotten” about the Americans who died on Sept. 11.
“I think the administration wasn’t around for 9/11,” Boehner said after emerging from a weekly meeting with House Republicans.
Dude, those […]

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Et tu, Petraeus?:
In an interview this past weekend with Radio Free Europe, Gen. David Petraeus said that he supports President Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and opposes the use of enhanced interrogation techniques:
PETRAEUS: In fact, I have long been on record as having testified and also in helping write doctrine for […]

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Nice. Via Patrick Appel over at Sullivan’s place - here’s how one 15-year-old kid who apparently laid land mines for the Taliban spent a portion of his confinement in Guantanamo Bay:
In the interrogation room, Omar’s interviewer grew displeased with his level of cooperation. He summoned several MPs, who chained Khadr tightly to an eye-bolt in […]

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