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John Boehner

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Brace yourself for a heated NIMBY debate. As Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year, Republicans say the devil is in the details. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius says her state doesn’t want any detainees and Minority Leader John Boehner filed a bill seeking to bar federal courts from ordering detainees be allowed into the United States.

That was a short honeymoon.

Donald Rumsfeld

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A Senate report released today blames Rumsfeld and other Bush officials for the inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.