Daily Reminder: February 6, 2012
February 6, 2012 by Jeff Schreiber
Filed under Assigned Reading
At the White House three years ago today, President Barack Obama met for approximately an hour with 40 family members of victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the October 12, 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen – one day after his administration dropped all charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the [...]
Daily Reminder: February 5, 2012
February 6, 2012 by Jeff Schreiber
Filed under Assigned Reading
Upholding President Barack Obama’s January 22, 2009 executive order halting in their tracks any and all legal proceedings for terrorist detainees held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Susan J. Crawford—Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commissions—dropped all charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, known Al Qaeda terrorist and mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole [...]
Daily Reminder: February 4, 2012
February 6, 2012 by Jeff Schreiber
Filed under Assigned Reading
Two years ago today, on February 4, 2010, the House of Representatives passed a measure which would effectively increase the national debt ceiling by a whopping $1.9 trillion to a maximum of $14.3 trillion. The vote only a little more than a month after Congress voted on Christmas Eve 2009 to increase the limit by [...]