Congress: Guantanamo No-Fly
Posted by Jim Harper
In a recent post that was meant to be funny, I noted the proposal to put Guantanamo detainees on the no-fly list. Wrecking people’s day at the airport, the cruelest torture. Get it? Oh well.
Anyway, that proposal – to put former detainees at Guantanamo on the no-fly list – was added to the TSA [...]
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The Cruelest Torture for Guantanamo Detainees
Posted by Jim Harper
The torture debate has taken a new twist. A bill introduced in Congress yesterday would subject Guantanamo detainees to one of the cruelest tortures known to man. Nobody should suffer a fate like this, but the bill does have a chance of passing.
H.R. 2503 would put Guantanamo detainees on the Department of Homeland Security’s no-fly [...]
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Do We Want Terrorists In the Country or Out of It?
Posted by Jim Harper
The Sunday morning political shows spent some time today on a bill that was introduced in the House last week. H.R. 2294 is called the Keep Terrorists Out of America Act – OK! OK! I’m for it! With a name like that . . . .
And that’s why the bill has such a name, [...]
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. . . Referred to the Committee on Sarcasm
Posted by Jim Harper
I had to do a double-take when I first saw this bill.
H.R. 6615 would “provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, D.C., where the United States Supreme Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by holding them on the Supreme Court grounds [...]
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