Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror capti...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror capti...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the...
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early...
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.
Miami Herald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
For two weeks in June, two dozen war-on-terror captives staged a sit-in at an exercise yard in a maximum-security prison camp -- refusing to budge fro...
New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON and ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- With six months left before a White House deadline, the Obama administration is struggling with legal, political and logistical problems...
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.
The Plum Line | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Joe Lieberman's Senate office confirms to me that he said in an interview to air later today that President Obama should consider keeping Guantanamo B...
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.30.2009 | World
Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can't vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo -- apparently by suicide -- of Abdul Rahman al-Amri.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
In his ongoing efforts to treat the American public as they have rarely been treated -- that is, as adults -- Obama pointed out several rational things.
David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?
Stephen Herrington | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
How do you treat a terrorist/soldier in a new order of conflict?
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Why take the "chance" by bringing additional Guantanamo detainees to our shores? Because it is essential to our national security that we close it down -- and this step is necessary to make that happen.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
Well, you have to give credit where credit is due. Glenn Beck takes time off from his eponymous Fox News show, no doubt to nurse the scars he receive...
The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics