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  Contact: Danny Gonzalez                                                           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECommunications Director, Move America Forward                                         December 29, 2008Cell: (714) 926-6189 or danny@moveamericaforward.org OBAMA SHOULD KEEP GITMO OPENMAF Leaders Call on President-Elect to Visit Personally to Get Facts  SACRAMENTO – Move America Forward (MAF), the nation’s largest pro-troop, grassroots organization, urged President-Elect Barack Obama to personally travel to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and learn why Gitmo should be kept open to house the world’s worst terrorists. Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward, led a delegation to the naval base last week to bring gifts, Christmas and Hanukkah cards and expressions of support...

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2006 – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today discounted a U.N. committee's call for the U.S. to close its terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Rice said a U.N. Committee Against Torture report, released May 19, criticizing U.S. treatment of detainees at Guantanamo was written "by remote control." "It would have been helpful if the reporter for that report had actually gone to Guantanamo; it's a little difficult to do this by remote control. And we did have a sense that this report, as John Bellinger, who is our legal counsel, said, might have been written...

Courts Hold Bush's Anti-Terror Excesses In Check Federal Appellate Courts Begin To Show Judicial Courage POSTED: 6:36 p.m. EST January 7, 2004 WASHINGTON -- Hail to the federal appellate courts. They may save the republic from the Bush administration's excesses in the war on terrorism. We are beginning to see -- at last -- some judicial courage reflected in court rulings that restrain the president from placing suspects in limbo for months, without access to lawyers or family. Those decisions may temper the actions of President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft in their apparent desire to ignore...