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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama

The president-elect's advisors respond to the firestorm created by Sunday's remarks on Guantanamo, illustrating the value of criticizing Obama when he deserves it.

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 06:52 PM

    naphini I was wondering the same thing...

    How do they know what these guys are doing? Amazing ain't it? Dozens of detainees, scattered to the winds, the four corners and all that, yet somehow, "they" know that they have rejoined the revolution.

    If that's the case why didn't they arrest them, or shoot them, or something?

    Maybe Total Information Awareness never really got canceled.

    I worked for Corrections Canada for over 10 years at their NHQ. Do you have any idea what one of the hardest to generate stats was? Yup, recidivism. Where are they, and what are they doing now, is really an impossible question to answer. We knew that. Why doesn't Homeland Security or the CIA?

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