Earlier this week Donald Trump sent out a tweet blasting former President Obama for releasing from Guantanamo Bay 122 detainees who've since returned to combat.

"122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!"

This sounds terrible - but it's just more Fake News.

While it IS true that 122 detainees have returned to combat after being released from Guantanamo, President Obama is hardly to blame.

113 of the Guantanamo detainees who've returned to combat after being released were released when George W. Bush was president. So it looks like Trump got this idea from Fox and Friends, which had sent out a tweet about 30 minutes earlier about the drone death of a former Gitmo detainee that also pointed out that "at least 122 former Gitmo detainees have re-engaged in terrorism."

"Former Gitmo detainee killed by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen; at least 122 former Gitmo detainees have re-engaged in terrorism"

Should a person who gets his facts from Fox and Friends have control of the nuclear football?

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... GOP Wants to Take Away Your Healthcare & Make the Rich Richer... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Thursday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Wikileaks Reveals CIA's "Impressive List" of Hacking Tools
- Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept    

Article: "CIA Has An "impressive List" Of Ways To Hack Into Your Smartphone, Wikileaks Files Indicate" by Jenna McLaughlin.

Article: "Why the Wikileaks Revelations Are So Important" by Jefferson Morley.

Article: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds news conference".

Article: "Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed" by WikiLeaks.

Article: "Fourth Geneva Convention" by Wikipedia.

 

Bill: "H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" by John Conyers.

Article: "Obamacare Repeal Would Give 400 Super-Rich U.S. Households A Giant Tax Cut" by Jonathan Cohn.

Article: "Health insurance companies would get $1 billion or more windfall under GOP Obamacare replacement plan" by Dan Mangan.

Article: "SEC Chair Nominee Clayton's Ethics Report Reveals Range of Possible Conflicts--Update" by Dave Michaels.

Article: "Trump's Net Neutrality-Hating FCC Chair Is Already Gutting Public-Interest Regulations But movements can counter him." by John Nichols.

Article: "Federal grand jury indicts Conway man accused of planning Dylann Roof-style attack" by Mikayla Mercer.

Article: "Florida man arrested for plot to set off bombs in Target stores in hopes of driving stock price down" by Ken Shepherd.

Article: "Democrats Attempt to Block President Trump's Immigration Order" by Bob Eschliman.

Article: "Trump has a secret backup plan to kill Obamacare. It's actually brilliant." by Greg Sargent.

Article: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act" by Robert Pear.

Article: "Dying robots and failing hope: Fukushima clean-up falters six years after tsunami" by Justin McCurry.

Article: "McCain gave dossier containing 'sensitive information' to FBI" by Max Greenwood.

Article: "French Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The J-curve - James C. Davies' Theory of Revolutions" by Tor G. Jakobsen.

Article: "The Fire at the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Power Station" (March 22, 1975) by David Dinsmore Comey.

Article: "Global economy walking a tight rope, Bill Gross warns" by Adam Samson.

Article: "Outrage over $400 million tax break for health insurance executives under GOP Obamacare replacement plan" by Dan Mangan.

Article: "The GOP's Plan Is Basically a $600 Billion Tax Cut for Rich Americans" by Derek Thompson.

Article: "China gives green light for Trump branded massage parlours, bars and concierge services" by AP.

Article: "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" by United Nations. "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."

Video: Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan: "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"'.

Event: March 11th: "Blue State Ball 2017" by Minneapolis, MN.

Article: "U.S. Consumer Comfort Just Reached Its Highest Level in a Decade" by Austin Weinstein.

Article: "Chao says U.S. drivers may face more tolls to raise infrastructure funds" by Ashley Halsey III.

Bill: "H.R.610 - To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in schools." by Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4].

Article: "Rep. Derek Kilmer hosts town hall in Hoquiam" by Terri Harber.

Article: "Democrats squandered an opportunity" by Susan Ryan-Vollmar.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Article: "Republican Study Committee pushes two changes to ObamaCare bill" by Rachel Roubein and Jessie Hellmann.

Article: "GOP Health Bill Clears First Hurdles; Leaders Claim Momentum" by Erica Werner And Alan Fram.

Article: "Resistance grows in Senate to House ObamaCare repeal bill" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Obamacare repeal seen as weakening mental health protections" by Brianna Ehley.

Article: "Democrats thwart progress on Obamacare repeal" by Jennifer Haberkorn, Paul Demko and Adam Cancryn.

Article: "White House: Don't call it Trumpcare" by Matthew Nussbaum, Jennifer Haberkorn.

Article: "GOPers Preemptively Trash CBO Before It Scores Their O'care Replacement" by Alice Ollstein.

Article: "Pelosi urges GOP to delay health care plan until CBO score is released" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Ryan downplays intra-party opposition to ACA replacement bill" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Vice President Mike Pence is coming to Louisville on Saturday" by Justin Sayers.

Article: "No plans for Trump visit to Louisville, says White House source" by Justin Sayers.

Article: "Trump Plans to Force AHCA Passage with Stadium-Sized Pro-Trump Rallies" by Lauren McCauley.

Article: "Panel Advances 2 Controversial Bills on EPA Science Transparency" by Jack Fitzpatrick.

Article: "David Friedman, Staunch Settlement Backer, Approved by Senate Panel as Envoy to Israel" by Amir Tibon.

Article: "Democratic lawmaker aims to block border wall funding with taxpayer dollars" by Rebecca Shabad.

Article: "McConnell on Mexico paying for the border wall: 'Uh, no'" by Madeline Conway.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Hour Three: Native Nations Rise to Protect Sacred Lands From the Fossil Fuel Industry
- Faith Gimmell, Resisiting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands (REDOIL)  

Article: "Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tipis on National Mall Signal Days of Native Defiance and Action" by Lauren McCauley.

Article: "Shell abandons Alaska Arctic drilling" by Terry Macalister.

Site: Indigenous Rising.

Site: Indigenous Environmental Network (I.E.N.).

 

Article: "North Korea claims missile test success as China rejects US criticism" by Justin McCurry.

Article: "Ring of Fire" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Axis of evil" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal framework" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Israel decriminalises marijuana to emphasise 'treatment instead of criminal enforcement'" by Peter Walker.

Article: "Why Republicans Included A Tax They Hate In Their Health Care Bill" by Tierney Sneed.

Site: Let America Vote.

Article: "House Republicans Just Voted to Eliminate the Only Federal Agency That Makes Sure Voting Machines Can't Be Hacked" by Ari Berman.

Article: "Neil Gorsuch sides with big business, big donors and big bosses" by Zephyr Teachout.

Article: "California to weigh single-payer, universal health care plan" by Katy Murphy.

Article: "SB 562. Californians For A Healthy California Act." by Senators Lara and Atkins.

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.

Site: Indivisible.

Site: Our Revolution

Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA), 1996.

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