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Bush, George W. •Guantanamo is not closed after...
...adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, also took a shot at the Bush administration. He said that while the United States still attracts “many of the world’s most talented people,” misfires like the government’s handling of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Hurricane Katrina have hurt the country’s reputation.On the topic of economic inequality, the former Treasury Secretary cited the importance of both creating prosperity and spreading its benefits.“People who once felt security in heir communities, their livelihoods, their nation...
...Paradigm turned into a self-fulfilling prophesy. It legitimized al-Libi’s torture. The intelligence gleaned from his torture helped legitimize the Iraq War. The Iraq War promised to turn disaffected youths into a new generation of extremists. Meanwhile, the human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the CIA’s “black sites” hampered our ability to stem atrocities in countries like Sudan, Burma, and Zimbabwe...
After 9/11, the FBI and the military snapped up Cross Match scanners for deployment in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay to fingerprint al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Those prints, along with thousands of unidentified ones lifted from uncovered safe houses around the globe and from arrests made by allies, were fed into a classified terrorist-fingerprint database at the FBI's West Virginia fingerprinting facility. Cross Match scanners were sent to Iraq to book captured terrorists, insurgents and Saddam Hussein. (Saddam was annoyed, according to agents posted to Iraq. "This is how you treat criminals!" he is said to have...
...this guy extradited," notes Jordan, "but they could as much be making a point about extradition laws as about computer crime." It's possible, he says, "that the Bush Administration's hard line is of a piece with the kind of things we've seen round extraordinary rendition and Guantanamo - they just believe that when there's a crime against the U.S. they have the right to have those people brought to the U.S. and they're willing to fight for that very strongly...