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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: steve harris who wrote (436191)2/2/2009 3:47:22 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 1576876
 
Obama's Moralizing Tone May Not Wear Well
How often do Americans want to hear how misguided they were before his arrival?

FEBRUARY 1, 2009, 10:43 P.M. ET

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
Two days into his presidency, Barack Obama delivered on his most celebrated and ardently pledged campaign promise -- the imposition of stringent limitations on the ways in which U.S. agents can question terror suspects, an executive order mandating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the freezing of all detainee prosecutions.

That last request brought an eloquent reply from Col. James Pohl, Guantanamo's chief military judge, who promptly said no. He declared the directive to freeze all trials "not reasonable" -- a description that could as well apply to the whole of the administration's program...

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