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McCain draws Castro's ire, music in Miami
The Swamp(AP Photo/AIN/FILE) by Mark Silva Score one knockdown in the South Florida contest: Three presidential candidates campaigned in South Florida this week, but only one came away with a published, personal attack from Fidel Castro. That's gold in some......Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Fidel Castro, Foreign Aid
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McCain's Cuban bond: Communist prisons
The Swampby Mark Silva John McCain, who spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in a Communist prison, is wasting no time cementing an alliance with an essential voting bloc that fled the Communist regime and political......Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, Heads of State
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McCain v. Obama: Supreme Court
The Swampby Mark Silva The Supreme Court is not on the ballot in November. But it may as well be. On any number of critical issues, the inclinations of Republican Sen. John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on the appointments of......Tags: Politics, Terrorism, Judges, Court Administration, Clarence Thomas
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Did Justice Scalia go too far?
The Swampby James Oliphant Justice Antonin Scalia is known for his strongly worded dissents, ones where he has never been hesitant to use confrontational and, some would say, even abusive language to make his point as clearly as possible. But some......Tags: Antonin Scalia, Politics, Washington Post Co., Crime, Law and Justice, Court Administration
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Court backs Gitmo detainees
The Swampby James Oliphant In a body-blow to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prisoners held at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have a constitutional right to challenge their detentions in civilian...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Clarence Thomas, Court Administration
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'If detainee dies, you're doing it wrong'
The Swampby Frank James One of the most memorable and chilling lines from today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the treatment of detainees came when Sen. Carl Levin, the Democrat who chairs the committee, referred to the back-and-forth between......Tags: Politics, Carl Levin, Crime, Law and Justice, Defense, Espionage and Intelligence
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McCain v. Obama on command experience
The Swampby Aamer Madhani and Katie Fretland The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama today rejected a statement by retired Gen. Wesley Clark who questioned whether John McCain's "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" qualified him to be the......Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Defense, John McCain
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Clark: Won't back down
Spin CycleWesley Clark, in a series of TV appearances last night and this morning and in a statement, refuses to back down from his assertion that getting shot down over Vietnam doesn't qualify McCain to be president. This is one......Tags: John McCain, Government, Armed Forces, Crime, Law and Justice, National Government
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Bush close to Gitmo decision?
The Swampby James Oliphant ABC News is reporting that President Bush may decide in the coming days whether to close or revamp the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that holds about 270 alleged terrorists. Closing Gitmo has been advocated by Defense......Tags: Politics, Pat Roberts, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Court Administration
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Guantanamo going nowhere soon
The SwampIn this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee, left, walks in a fenced-in exercise area as a guard patrols on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp 5, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in......Tags: White House, Human Rights, Politics, Pat Roberts, Judges
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Evidence suppressed in first Gitmo trial
The Swampby James Oliphant Looking for the shape of things to come after the first day of the trial of accused al Qaeda operative Salim Ahmed Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay? How about the ruling by the military officer overseeing the proceedings......Tags: Prosecution, Terrorism, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Mukasey: We need detainee hearing rules
The Swampby Aamer Madhani In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last month that detainees at Guantanamo Bay have a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court, Attorney General Michael Mukasey today called on Congress to spell out.......Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Court Administration, Patrick Leahy, Civil Rights
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