Obama Guantanamo

New Guantanamo Report Raises Questions

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 04.10.2012

WASHINGTON — Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an accep...

UN Rights Chief: Close Gitmo

AP | Posted 01.23.2012

GENEVA -- The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago. Na...

A Rainy Day in D.C., Marching to Close Guantanamo

Coleen Rowley | Posted 03.18.2012

Coleen Rowley

It's now 10 years after the indefinite detention prison of Guantanamo was created. With the recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act broadening, the U.S. government seems to have given up on ever righting itself.

The Power of Symbols: The Need to Close Guantanamo

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 03.13.2012

Rev. Richard L. Killmer

Our nation must close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay now to remove a dangerous symbol and to ensure that the next generation does not grow up in a country that tortures.

A Peculiar and Pernicious Myth: Domestic Military Detentions

Kate Martin | Posted 03.13.2012

Kate Martin

There is an extraordinary claim being widely circulated: that the defense bill recently signed by the president authorizes the detention without charge of Americans and other terrorist suspects found in the United States. That is simply untrue.

Protests Mark Dubious Milestone

Posted 01.11.2012

WASHINGTON--Human rights groups plan protests worldwide on Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. military detention ca...

Unhappy Anniversary

Gary Isaac | Posted 03.12.2012

Gary Isaac

Today's an anniversary, but there's no reason to celebrate. Ten years ago the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo has undermined American values and jeopardized our national security for a decade -- that's long enough.

Michael McAuliff

Obama's Indefinite Detention Law Could Refill Gitmo

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.11.2012

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama failed two years ago to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison, and with Wednesday marking the 10th anniversary...

10 Years Later, Guantanamo Is STILL Open

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 03.11.2012

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was c...

Issue Of Closing Guantanamo Is Far From Settled

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 12.05.2011

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and other al-Qaida leaders. Yet, in spite of ...

Andrea Stone

WH Advisor John Brennan To Congress: Stop Playing Politics With 'Counterterrorism Cavalry'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.08.2011

WASHINGTON -- The White House's chief counterterrorism advisor expressed frustration Thursday that the administration remains unable to make good on i...

Elise Foley

Lindsey Graham: U.S. Troops Will Shoot More Afghans Because Guantanamo Bay Is Closing

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.11.2011

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday that U.S. forces kill suspected terrorists and enemy combatants because they cannot detai...

Domestic Military Detention Isn't Necessary

David Rittgers | Posted 07.09.2011

David Rittgers

Our soldiers and investigators have demonstrated their capability to defeat Al Qaeda both on the battlefield and in the courtroom. We should let them do their jobs and not mix the two realms for the sake of political posturing.

Saki Knafo

The Sharecropper And The Terrorist: What Leaked Files Reveal About The Guantanamo Dilemma

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.26.2011

In December 2001, Pakistani forces arrested two men within a few days of each other in the mountains on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The tr...

Guantanamo Files Reveal Details On Nearly 800 Detainees

Posted 06.25.2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A cache of classified U.S. military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been ...

Olbermann: Obama 'Let The Terrorists Win'

Posted 06.06.2011

Keith Olbermann harshly criticized President Obama for his decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military commission instead of ...

Shattered Dreams: Obama's Failed Plan To Close Gitmo

AP | By PETE YOST | Posted 06.05.2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has given up its bid to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court, a bow to p...

Court Decision Makes It Easier For Government To Hold Gitmo Detainees

ProPublica | Dafna Linzer | Posted 05.29.2011

by Dafna Linzer ProPublica, March 29, 2011, 5:51 p.m...

Thank You Republicans For Guantanamo

Dal LaMagna | Posted 05.25.2011

Dal LaMagna

After creating a tremendous stain on the reputation of our nation, the Republicans are criticizing Obama because he is not fixing their problem fast enough. This is another instance of the arsonists criticizing the fire department.

Obama Makes Indefinite Detention His Own

ProPublica | Dafna Linzer | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama yesterday formalized indefinite detention for dozens of men held at Guantanamo Bay and announced that the Pentagon would move ahead wi...

Obama To Approve Guantanamo Trials

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cu...

Should We Embrace Guantánamo Bay?

Cori Crider | Posted 05.25.2011

Cori Crider

Contrary to some proposals, there can be no blank page on Gitmo. The debate has become at once so poisoned, so calcified, and so removed from the prisoners whose fate it involves that it is impossible to begin anew.

Torture and the Rule of Law

Isaac Hale | Posted 05.25.2011

Isaac Hale

This month marks the second anniversary of President Obama's signing the order pledging to close Guantanamo Bay Prison before January 2010. We are a year overdue with no end in sight.

Obama Administration Plans Guantanamo Showdown With Congress

ProPublica | Dafna Linzer | Posted 05.25.2011

ProPublica's Dafna Linzer reports:Update (4:25 p.m.): This story has been updated to reflect our latest reporting with the addition of a third sentenc...

Sam Stein

Robert Gibbs: 'It's Going To Be A While Before' Gitmo Closes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

If there was one macro-lesson to be learned from the process -- painful as it was -- of overturning the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, it'...