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Norm Coleman
American Action Network: Coleman Et Al. To Launch Right-Wing 'Action Tank'
Justin Elliott | February 5, 2010, 9:05AM
Norm Coleman, American Action CEO
Several top Republicans are launching what they call a "think-and-do tank" that will focus on conservative economics and business issues and will openly advocate for political candidates, the New York Times is reporting.
At the forefront of the new American Action Network are former senator Norm Coleman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was a policy adviser for John McCain and a frequent face of the McCain presidential campaign on television.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: American Action Network, Center for American Progress, John McCain, Norm Coleman
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Are Military Tribunals Really Tougher On Terrorists Than Criminal Courts?
Justin Elliott | February 3, 2010, 1:27PM
Flight 253 bomb attack suspect Umar Abdulmutallab
With the debate over how to handle captured terrorists heating up, it's a good time to look back at the record of how military tribunals have worked in practice, and examine the uninterrogated assumption underlying the debate: that tribunals are tougher on terrorists than the criminal justice system.
A recent study by the liberal Center for American Progress found that in the very few cases of captured terrorists being tried in tribunals, the defendants were given lighter sentences than comparable cases in the criminal justice system.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (5) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: Ali Asad Chandia, Center for American Progress, David Hicks, John Walker Lindh, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Kit Bond, Military Commissions, Military Tribunals, Obama Administration, Republicans, Salim Hamdan, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Guantanamo
The Gitmo-Yemen-Flight 253 Connection: What We Know And How We Know It
Justin Elliott | January 6, 2010, 10:12AM
With the news Tuesday that the Obama Administration has decided to halt transfers of Gitmo detainees to Yemen, it's worth taking a closer look at what we do -- and do not -- know about the activity of former detainees in the group known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
That's the al Qaeda "affiliate" that claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas attack over Detroit, and that President Obama has fingered as training and equipping Umar Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man arrested in that incident.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (35) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (8)Topics: Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Center for American Progress, Christopher Boucek, Defense Department, Guantanamo, Hani Abdo Shaalan, Ken Gude, Obama Administration, Pete Hoekstra, Said al-Shihri, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Yemen
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