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I was surprised recently to see Gates defend the move of terrorists to super-max facilities in the US.
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He was tried in criminal court by the Bush administration and is sitting in an American super-max prison for life.
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He was tried in criminal court by the Bush administration and is sitting in an American super-max prison for life.
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He was tried in criminal court by the Bush administration and is sitting in an American super-max prison for life.
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He was tried in criminal court by the Bush administration and is sitting in an American super-max prison for life.
Shannyn Moore: The Palin Facebook Doctrine Shannyn Moore 2010
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He was tried in criminal court by the Bush administration and is sitting in an American super-max prison for life.
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They sounded the alarm about the supposed danger of transferring detainees to U.S. super-max prisons or resettling some, like the Chinese Uighurs, who have been judged no threat to the United States.
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So, in the Age of Obama, the mighty United States again presents itself to the world as "Scaredy-Cat Nation," terrified about the danger posed by a small number of suspected terrorists who might be transferred, in shackles, from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to super-max prisons on U.S. soil.
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All manner of terrifying tales have been imagined about inmates using their one hour a day outside their jail cells to organize breakouts or about terrorist comrades crossing the U.S. border to lay siege to a super-max prison and somehow busting the prisoners out.
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As the "not in my backyard" furor built -- and some Americans panicked over scary fantasies about Islamic terrorists breaking out of super-max prisons and roaming the countryside -- congressional Democrats retreated rather than stand their ground.
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