http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/detainees_abu_ghraib_guantanamo_bay This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Detainees/Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo Bay en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200706130001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706130001 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:01:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705170005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200705170005 Thu, 17 May 2007 15:20:05 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704260005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704260005 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:35:15 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200704030011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704030011 Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:36:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701180015 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701180015 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:01:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200002 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:46:09 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010009 In response to a question from Wolf Blitzer about why people have been wrongfully detained by the U.S. government, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed he didn't "know the specific cases" Blitzer was "referring to." Blitzer did not challenge Gonzales or point out any of several such detainments documented by human-rights groups and foreign governments. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010009 Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:05:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611040012 During Tony Snow's recent series of appearances on cable news channels, interviewers on CNN and Fox News left unchallenged a number of false, misleading, and baseless Republican talking points on a variety of issues. After allowing Snow to misrepresent the Democratic position on the surveillance and detention of suspected terrorists, CNN host Wolf Blitzer told Snow that he is "a straight shooter." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611040012 Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:24:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610300006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200610300006 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:21:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200007 Chris Matthews did not challenge Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) assertion that he would "be one of the first to support going to the United States Supreme Court" if the president indicated through a signing statement that he was "not going to abide" by a law passed by Congress. In fact, while McCain initially rebuked President Bush over a signing statement to his detainee treatment bill and threatened close congressional oversight, he has since neither sought a ruling from the Supreme Court, nor even held hearings on the subject. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200007 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:14:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200005 During a report on the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Fox News' Bret Baier uncritically reported the Bush administration's assertion that, under the bill, noncitizen detainees have a right to challenge their detention and designation as "unlawful enemy combatant[s]" and that critics of the bill who say otherwise are "just flat wrong." In fact, a detainee's ability to challenge his or her detention effectively depends on the government's willingness to provide an initial hearing, which the government can postpone indefinitely. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200005 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:19:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180019 Although <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>New York Times</em>, and Reuters reports on President Bush's signing of the Military Commissions Act included general criticism of the legislation, they were all silent on its most controversial provision: allowing the president to detain noncitizens in the United States or abroad for any reason, indefinitely. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180019 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:44:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180017 In her report on President Bush's signing of the controversial detainee bill, ABC's Martha Raddatz noted Sen. Russ Feingold's general opposition to the bill but gave no indication of Feingold's specific criticism -- that the bill "allows the government to seize individuals on American soil and detain them indefinitely with no opportunity to challenge their detention in court." Nightly news broadcasts on NBC and CBS devoted little attention to the bill's signing and ignored Democratic criticism of it altogether. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180017 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:29:55 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180004 In their coverage of President Bush's signing later that morning of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell reported that "there has been plenty of controversy" surrounding the bill but did not elaborate on what that controversy might be, while ABC News' Kate Snow did not mention that there is opposition to the bill, much less any of the reasons for that opposition. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180004 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:00:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610050006 In an interview with former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, National Public Radio's Steve Inskeep failed to challenge Yoo's many assertions on the recently passed terror detainee bill, including the claim that a U.S. citizen captured in the United States and detained as an "enemy combatant" would have the "right," under this law, to challenge his or her detention in federal court. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610050006 Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:09:26 EST