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MIAMI — President Barack Obama says he's serious about closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That was the pledge he repeated Mon...
washingtonpost.com | Robert Barnes | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
The Supreme Court set aside the objections of the Obama administration and said Tuesday that it will consider whether judges have the power to release...
AP | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the House have lost a bid to block the transfer of any detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United Sta...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
One can only hope (ah, that intoxicating word!) that President Obama will take his award seriously, and will use his new status as official man of peace to actually bring peace.
Diane Marie Amann | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Some are questioning the decision to give the award a scant nine months after the onset of Obama's Presidency. Such questions ignore just how much Obama and his administration have accomplished in that short time.
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama visited the National Counterterrorism Center outside Washington and declared that "because of our efforts" al Qaeda...
nytimes.com | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders have decided to allow detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought to the United States to face civ...
Reuters | Jane Sutton | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
MIAMI (Reuters) - An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort...
McClatchy | Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Graphic photos of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners present the Supreme Court with its latest, but not its last, national-security legal dilemma. O...
Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
This article by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica, and Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, was published by ProPublica under a Creative Commons license. With ...
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...
Bill Schneider | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Mr. Obama has proved that he can be inspiring. But at this point, what he needs to inspire most of all is fear.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
According to the New York Times, more than 1 in 10 of immigrant fatalities that have taken place in detention over the past six years, has gone unreported, and has been "overlooked."
Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly con...
Wall Street Journal | SIOBHAN GORMAN and EVAN PEREZ | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration's counterterrorism chief appeared to provide the first indication the administration may not make its January deadline for cl...
Associated Press | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
(WASHINGTON - AP) Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases have been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal trials in the nation's capit...
David Danzig | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Could President Obama and the U.S. Congress transform a deeply flawed legal process -- struck down, at one time by the Supreme Court -- into one that acted like a real court?
Washington Independent | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
It wasn't until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arre...
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...
David Laufman | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
As the Obama Administration grapples with resolving the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo, one option which must be preserved is the criminal prosecution of detainees in U.S. federal courts.
Ari Melber | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Obama's controversial detention plan for Guantanamo detainees keeps leaking and it is a fundamentally radical, dangerous and potentially unconstitutional approach.
AP | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he's open to the idea of detaining some Guantanamo Bay terror suspects somewhere else for prolonged per...
ProPublica | Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reasser...
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 07.05.2009 | 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.
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AP/Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics