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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsObama Ignores Court Orders on Detainees
By Ed Brayton
This is actually a few days old but I somehow missed it until now. Daphne Eviatar writes at the Washington Independent that the Obama administration is refusing to comply with court orders in multiple cases where detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been ordered to be released.
The problem seems to be particularly acute with detainees originally from Yemen. For some reason, both the Bush and Obama administrations have refused to release anyone from Yemen back to their home country, even if they themselves determined that the detainee had done nothing wrong and was being imprisoned for no reason. Daphne explains:
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