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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 01:27 PM
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(Attorney General) Holder going to Guantanamo
Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed Wednesday that he will travel to the Guantanamo Bay military detention center next week as a “first step” in a process to determine what to do with detainees held there.

Holder told reporters after a speech on civil rights that he will make the trip to Cuba on Monday with the Justice Department’s point man on counterterrorism, Matt Olsen, who serves as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division.

Spokesman Dean Boyd termed the trip “the beginning of a review process.”

Read more: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/18/holder-going-to-guantanamo/
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 01:27 PM
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1. Excellent! Now THAT's change!
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 01:31 PM
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2. Wait til he finds out there are no records on these guys. .
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Piewhacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 01:46 PM
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3. No longer amused. Time for him to step up, clean up, prosecute.
Nothing less.
Honeymoon is over Holder, get busy and clean up this mess.
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