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Image You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
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Pentagon Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo Bay
The concept is to permit two military judges to hold proceedings simultaneously starting in mid-2023.

By Carol Rosenberg
Dec. 29, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is building a second courtroom for war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay that will exclude the public from the chamber, the latest move toward secrecy in the nearly 20-year-old detention operation.

The new courtroom will permit two military judges to hold proceedings simultaneously starting in 2023.

On those occasions, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the four other men who are accused of plotting the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, would have hearings in the existing chamber, which has a gallery for the public.

Smaller cases would be held in the new $4 million chamber. Members of the public seeking to watch those proceedings at Guantánamo would be shown a delayed video broadcast in a separate building.

It is the latest retreat from transparency in the already secretive national security cases at the base, where the military and intelligence agencies have been restricting what the public can see. That includes forbidding photography of sites that were once routinely shown to visitors and declaring both populated and emptied wartime prison facilities off limits to reporters.

In Guantánamo’s current war court chamber, which opened in 2008, members of the public watching the proceedings live hear the audio on a 40-second delay, time enough for the judge or a security officer to mute the sound if they suspect something classified has been said.

That allowed spectators in the gallery in January 2013 to see the puzzled look of an Army judge after the C.I.A. remotely cut off video feeds of the proceedings. Another time, only observers in the room saw guards bring an uncooperative defendant into court strapped to a restraint chair, with a soldier following behind carrying his prosthetic leg.

In 2018, guards set up a hospital bed inside the courtroom for a disabled defendant that could not be seen on video feeds.

But the new courtroom, in what is described as a cost-saving measure, has no such gallery. Only people with a secret clearance, such as members of the intelligence community and specially cleared guards and lawyers, will be allowed inside the new chamber.



https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/us/p ... troom.html
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What?? No snow plows in DC?
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Patagoniagirl wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:02 pm What?? No snow plows in DC?
Not a lot... https://citizeninsights.geotab.com/#/dcsnowgov
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What?? Marine One does not fly in white-out conditions?

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I'm not sure if this is an accurate picture or stock.

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Biden to Deliver First State of the Union Address on March 1
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Biden: "The goal of the former POTUS and his allies is to disenfranchise anyone who votes against them, simple as that. The facts won't matter. Your vote won't matter ... that's the kind of power you see in totalitarian states."
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"Next week, we'll announce how we're making high quality masks available to the American people for free," Pres. Biden says, acknowledging the costs of higher quality masks amid omicron surge. https://abcn.ws/3nbmDmH
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Volkonski wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:57 am ABC News
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"Next week, we'll announce how we're making high quality masks available to the American people for free," Pres. Biden says, acknowledging the costs of higher quality masks amid omicron surge. https://abcn.ws/3nbmDmH
The cost is what it is, but everywhere I've found that I trust to order from is backordered. Been waiting for some time now. Blech.
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Apparently Maureen Dowd has been whinging about Biden’s short weekend trips home. Maybe he should be going to a distant golf course.

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BREAKING: President Biden has directed federal agencies to RAISE the minimum wage for Federal workers to $15.

Who thinks the media should be making a bigger deal about this?✋
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"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher wrote: It's a stupid question from Peter Doocy: "Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?"

Biden's first sarcastic reply of "It's a great asset - more inflation" is a great response, but "what a stupid son of a bitch" is inexcusable.

I hated it when Trump personally attacked the media and I think it's awful that Joe Biden called a reporter (as antagonistic as he might be) a stupid son of a bitch.

Call me crazy, but it shouldn't be hard to be consistent here, and we should expect more from our presidents.
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Doocy: "Yeah, nobody has fact checked it yet." :lol:
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I love Biden even more for this~
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raison de arizona wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:46 pm Fair and balanced:

And, when Trump did it, it wasn't that he forgot about an open mic. He deliberately called people names as an integral part of his speeches.
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I believe he knew the mic was hot and just didn't care.

Peter Doocy has a history of being stupid.
McCain had the exact same reaction to Peter Doocy as Biden.

There’s your bipartisanship.
If only McCain could see us now, he was right on the money.
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raison de arizona wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:46 pm
Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher wrote: It's a stupid question from Peter Doocy: "Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?"

Biden's first sarcastic reply of "It's a great asset - more inflation" is a great response, but "what a stupid son of a bitch" is inexcusable.

I hated it when Trump personally attacked the media and I think it's awful that Joe Biden called a reporter (as antagonistic as he might be) a stupid son of a bitch.

Call me crazy, but it shouldn't be hard to be consistent here, and we should expect more from our presidents.
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Eh, snowflakes.

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Both sides argument. Works every time, right?
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And then there was a cat.
White House History @WhiteHouseHstry wrote: Today, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden welcomed a new pet, a cat named Willow, to the White House!

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