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Five detainees ordered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo

If the U.S. Congress had its way, these men would continue to be imprisoned despite there being no evidence of their guilt.

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 04:15 PM

    Little Brother

    I won't elaborate, since I know that netiquette frowns on using "good" comments sites to air grievances about other sites, but I hope Glenn will forgive me for calling attention to this deplorable instance of censorship. It's sad and irksome, and IMO deserve exposure.

    That's really odd, given that I always thought of that site as being much more Left than mainstream Democratic thought -- it's the last place I thought would be punishing insufficient Obama enthusiasm.

    While I have you about that site, what do you know about it? It's really odd - they simply copy articles that don't belong to them and re-print them wholesale without asking for, let alone receiving, permission. I don't much care that they do that (though Salon might), but I've always been pretty amazed at how brazenly they do it. Any insights on why? Do they have some sort of ideological belief that refuses to recognize copyright ownership or something?

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