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Guantanamo Bay & Terror Trial Resources

  • Polling
    • Miami Herald (3/30/10): Poll: Americans don’t want U.S. to empty Guantánamo
      • Quinnipiac (1/14/10): 60% Of Americans Want Gitmo Kept Open
        • CBS (1/11/10): Clear Majority Of Americans Want Gitmo Kept Open
          • Rasmussen (12/31/09): 58% Favor Waterboarding Of Plane Terrorist To Get Information
            • Gallup (12/16/09): 64% Of Americans Oppose Closing Gitmo, Moving Prisoners To U.S.
              • Rasmussen (12/12/09): 51% in Illinois Oppose Prison For Guantanamo Terrorists In Their State
                • Gallup (11/27/09): Americans At Odds With Terror Trial Decision
                  • We Ask America (11/17/09): Survey Shows Only 32% Of IL Voters Support Quinn/Durbin Plan To Move Gitmo To IL, 57% Oppose
                    • Rasmussen (8/09): 75% Worried That Gitmo Closing Will Set Dangerous Terrorists Free
                      • Legislation & Studies
                        • Guantanamo Review Task Force (5/27/2010): 95% of Gitmo Detainees Had at Least Some Connection to the Terror Network
                          • Department of Defense (4/7/2009): DOD Report Of Known Guantanamo Recidivists (NOTE: Does Not Include New Gitmo Recidivists From April 2009 – Present)
                            • Department of Defense (6/9/2005): 2005 Church Report Of Alleged Abuse At Guantanamo
                              • Letter By Sens. McCain, Lieberman, Webb, Lincoln and Graham (1/26/2010): Bipartisan Group of Senators Call For KSM and 9/11 Co-Conspirators To Be Tried In Military Tribunals
                                • Center for Security Policy (12/14/09): Members Of Congress Who Have Flip-flopped On Gitmo
                                  • Washington Independent (12/10/09): Habeas Scorecard Shows What Happens When Federal Judges Override Military; Terrorists Are Winning
                                    • Weekly Standard (11/17/09): Al Qaeda’s Civil Liberties Union
                                      • Department of Justice (11/13/09): Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Transfer Of Gitmo Terrorists To The U.S.
                                        • Republican Leader John Boehner: Declassified Files Of New York Five (Terrorists Being Imported By The Obama Administration for Trial)
                                          • Department of Justice (10/31/09): Department Of Justice Press Release On Transfer Of 6 Uighur Detainees To Palau
                                            • Department of Justice Press Release (10/28/09): Terror Cell Leader Rules From Within Supermax
                                              • US House Roll Call Vote (10/15/09): Find Out If Your Representative Voted To Bring Terrorist Detainees At Guantanamo Bay To The U.S. For Trial
                                                • Letter From Retired Generals, Admirals & National Security Professionals To The President (10/7/09): In Opposition To The Plan To Close The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility
                                                  • House Committee On Armed Services Letter (8/10/09): Closing Gitmo Offends Muslims, But So Does Keeping It Open
                                                    • Federal Indictment (3/01): Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings In Kenya And Tanzania
                                                      • VIDEO FLASHBACK-Sen. Charles Schumer (01): “Ludicrous” To Try 9/11 Terrorists In Federal Court In NYC
                                                        • Recent News
                                                          • Washington Post (4/29/10): Military Tribunal Opens Hearings On Guantanamo Detainee Omar Khadr
                                                            • Washington Post (4/27/10): Pentagon Taps Former U.S. Attorney As Guantanamo Prosecutor
                                                              • The Hill (4/18/10): Rep. King: Trial Debate Looks Foolish
                                                                • New York Daily News (4/13/10): Al Qaeda subway bomb plot: It could take months for fourth conspirator to be extradited
                                                                  • AFP (4/12/10): Underwear Bomber Back To Court
                                                                    • US News and World reports Report (4/02/10): Guantánamo Detainees Released Amid Debate Over Closing the Prison
                                                                      • Weekly Standard (3/29/10): Stalking The CIA
                                                                        • Los Angeles Times (3/25/10) Obama backtracking on detainee rights, critics say
                                                                          • Main Justice (3/24/10) Military Trials Likely, DOD Will Get New Commissions Chief
                                                                            • Washington Post (3/23/10) Graham proposes framework for handling terrorism suspects
                                                                              • Washington Post (3/23/10): Chief Lawyers Named For Guantanamo Bay Defense, Prosecution Teams
                                                                                • Weekly Standard (3/22/10): Judge Orders Notorious Terrorist Freed From Gitmo
                                                                                  • Weekly Standard (3/22/10): DOJ’s Ex-Detainee Lawyers: The Ethics Issue
                                                                                    • Politico (3/19/10): Graham Dismisses Gitmo Deal Talk
                                                                                      • Human Events (3/15/10): No Support For Graham To Cut Deal On Gitmo Says Inhofe
                                                                                        • Reuters (3/11/10): Guantanamo Prisoner Known As Hambali Seeks Release
                                                                                          • Washington Times (2/26/10): Identifying The Gitmo Nine
                                                                                            • IowaPoliltics.com (2/26/10): U.S. Sen. Grassley: Pressing For Answers On DOJ Gitmo Detainee Policies
                                                                                              • National Review (2/25/10): Terrorists’ Lawyers At The DOJ
                                                                                                • The Washington Post (2/24/10): Spain Accepts First Guantanamo Inmate
                                                                                                  • New York Post (2/23/10): In-Justice! Furor Over O’s ‘Gitmo’ Appointees
                                                                                                    • Politico (2/11/10): Democrats Divided Over Trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
                                                                                                      • Washington Post (2/4/10): Switzerland To Resettle Uighur Brothers From Guantanamo
                                                                                                        • Time (2/03/10): Obama Grapples with Holder’s 9/11 Trials Plan
                                                                                                          • Chicago Tribune (2/2/10): Obama’s Guantanamo Prison Option In Illinois Faces Democratic Opposition
                                                                                                            • AP (2/2/10): Latvia To Accept 1 Guantanamo Inmate
                                                                                                              • New York Post (2/01/10): Chuck: Bar 9/11 trial from anywhere in NY
                                                                                                                • Washington Post (1/30/10): Trial of Alleged Sept. 11 Conspirators Probably Won’t Be Held in Lower Manhattan
                                                                                                                  • Washington Post (1/29/10): Obama Faces Dwindling Options In His Effort To Close Guantanamo Bay
                                                                                                                    • New York Times (1/28/10): Administration Considers Moving Site of 9/11 Trial
                                                                                                                      • New York Daily News (1/28/10): Gov. Paterson joins camp pushing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 9/11 terror trial to be moved
                                                                                                                        • New York Times (1/27/10): Bloomberg Balks at 9/11 Trial, Dealing Blow to White House
                                                                                                                          • New York Daily News (1/27/10): 2 NY Dems: No 9/11 Trial in City
                                                                                                                            • Politico (1/26/10): Two Dems want KSM trial out of NYC
                                                                                                                              • Miami Herald (1/26/10): 4 More Guantánamo Detainees Sent To Europe
                                                                                                                                • Washington Times (1/23/10): NYC’s Top Cop Ray Kelly On Decision To Have Terror Trials In NY: We Were Not Consulted
                                                                                                                                  • NRO’s The Corner (1/23/10): If They’re Releasing These Guys — To Algeria Of All Places — They’ll Release Anyone
                                                                                                                                    • Washington Post (1/22/10): Justice Task Force Recommends About 50 Guantanamo Detainees Be Held Indefinitely
                                                                                                                                      • AP (1/20/10): Cops Outline Double Security Plan For KSM Trial
                                                                                                                                        • MyFox New York (1/20/10): Community Board Wants 9/11 Trial Moved
                                                                                                                                          • Boston.com (1/19/10): Newton Sponsors To Halt Gitmo Resolution
                                                                                                                                            • Fox News (1/19/10): Fox Confirms: Slovakia Accepts 3 Gitmo Detainees
                                                                                                                                              • Commentary (1/18/10): Reversing Obama’s Worst Decision Yet?
                                                                                                                                                • Washington Examiner (1/17/10): Alexandria Doesn’t Want ‘Hambali’
                                                                                                                                                  • Wicked Local (1/15/10): Newton Residents Outraged At Proposal To Welcome Guantanamo Detainee
                                                                                                                                                    • The Hill (1/13/10): Committees Failed to Share Info for Weeks
                                                                                                                                                      • AP (1/8/10): Judge Tosses Most Evidence In Criminal Case Against Gitmo Detainee
                                                                                                                                                        • New York Times (1/7/10): Many Ex-Detainees Said To Be Engaged In Terror
                                                                                                                                                          • Newsweek (1/6/10): Is The Obama Administration Giving Up On Closing Gitmo?
                                                                                                                                                            • VIDEO: NBC News (1/4/10): Brennan: Plea Deal Possible For Abdulmutallab
                                                                                                                                                              • New York Times (12/23/09): Former Gitmo Prisoner Sami Al Hajj Now Back To Work For Al Jazeera
                                                                                                                                                                • *More on Sami Al Hajj Here*
                                                                                                                                                                  • New York Times (12/22/09): Plan To Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces New Delay
                                                                                                                                                                    • Weekly Standard (12/21/09): Did Obama Overrule Military In Gitmo Terrorist Release?
                                                                                                                                                                      • Weekly Standard (12/21/09): Gitmo Detainees Sent To Country That Does Not Exist
                                                                                                                                                                        • Weekly Standard (12/21/09): Obama Orders First Release Of A “High-Value Detainee”?
                                                                                                                                                                          • Fox News (12/09): Al Qaeda Lawyer James Hatcher: Holder’s Terror Trial Decision “A Game Changer”
                                                                                                                                                                            • Chicago Sun-Times (12/18/09): Boehner: Congress Can Stop IL Prison Transfer
                                                                                                                                                                              • Reuters (12/17/09): Boehner: Don’t Bet On Gitmo Closure
                                                                                                                                                                                • USA Today (12/16/09): Concerns Raised Over Gitmo Transfers To Illinois
                                                                                                                                                                                  • New York Times (12/15/09): Terror Trials May Be Held In Other Cities
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Reuters (12/14/09):
                                                                                                                                                                                      • NBC-New York (12/9/09): Skelton Not Happy with 9/11 Trials
                                                                                                                                                                                        • New York Post (11/14/09): Daniel Pearl’s Dad is Sickened by Obama’s 9/11 Trial Decision
                                                                                                                                                                                          • Fox News (11/14/09): Blinded Prison Guard: Don’t House Terror Suspects in NYC
                                                                                                                                                                                            • AFP (11/3/09): Senate Democrat Leaders Table Graham Amendment
                                                                                                                                                                                              • AFP (11/3/09): Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Yemeni Gitmo Detainee Case
                                                                                                                                                                                                • Weekly Standard (10/29/09): FBI: Radical Islamist Group Ruled by Inmate in “Supermax” Jail
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Associated Press (10/26/09): Has Obama Changed His Deadline For Gitmo Closure?
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Detroit Free Press (10/26/09): Panel Withholds Support For Move Of Gitmo Detainees To Standish
                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Detroit Free Press (10/22/09): Hoekstra Rebuked For Bringing Up Gitmo Issue
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Time Magazine (10/21/09): Military Tribunals Make Closing Gitmo A Tough Goal
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • The Long War Journal (10/21/09): Another Former Gitmo Detainee Killed In A Shootout
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Boston Globe (10/20/09): Gitmo Detainees To Amherst, MA?
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Reuters (10/20/09): Congress Agrees On Moving Guantanamo Inmates
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Fox News (10/20/09): Press Freedom Limited At Gitmo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Fox News (10/20/09): 9/11 Families Demand Military Trials For Gitmo Detainees
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Detroit Free Press (10/19/09): Standish, MI City Council Cool To Taking Gitmo Detainees
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • The International News (10/19/09): Norway Rules Out Guantanamo Transfers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Reuters (10/16/09): UK Court Wants to Publish U.S. Intelligence on Detainee
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Fox News (10/15/09): WH Lauds House Vote Allowing Gitmo Detainees To US For Trial
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Reuters (10/15/09): House Backs Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The Hill: Congress uses spending bills to halt closing of Guantanamo Bay prison
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • The Wall Street Journal: Congress Takes A NIMBY Approach To Closing Gitmo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Senate Votes 90-6 To Deny Funding To Close Gitmo (May 20, 2009)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • New York Times (1/24/09): 2 Ex-Detainees In Qaeda Video

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Boston Globe (6/25/08): Detainee Fight Gets Bigger, Costlier for Long-battling Boston Law Firm

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Los Angeles Times (4/23/02): Moussaoui Says He Prays For U.S. Ruin
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Critical Thinking & Commentary
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Thomas Joscelyn (4/26/10): Falling For Spin of The Gitmo Bar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Keith J. Allred (4/19/10):Military Commissions: Right Venue For KSM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Andrew C. McCarthy (4/17/10):The Kids Are Alright
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Washington Times (3/30/10) EDITORIAL: Not exactly terrorists
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Byron York (3/30/10) On terrorism, Holder’s argument doesn’t add up
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Michael Barone (3/29/10) Friend of the Enemy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Marc A. Thiessen (3/29/10): The Dean Of The Gitmo Bar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Andrew C. McCarthy (3/29/10) ‘Representing’ al-Qaeda
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Andrew C. McCarthy (3/25/10) So, You Still Want to Close Gitmo?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Wall Street Journal (3/22/10): Lindsey Graham’s Air Ball
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Benjamin Wittes & Jack L. Goldsmith (3/19/10): The Best Trial Option For KSM: Nothing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Debra Burlingame & Thomas Joscelyn (3/15/10): Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Jeff Sessions (3/12/10): Drop KSM Trial
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Peter Hoekstra (3/11/10): A Gitmo Deal With The Devil
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