Miami Herald's FOIA Suit Reveals Guantánamo's 'Indefinite Detainees'

Obama Administration Lifts Veil Of Secrecy On Gitmo Detainees
Protesters march against the 10-year anniversary of holding detainees in Guantanamo Prison during a demonstration January 11, 2012 in front of the White House in Washington,DC. The White House insisted Monday that Obama was determined to close Guantanamo, which accepted its first prisoners on January 11, 2002, four months after Al-Qaeda flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
Protesters march against the 10-year anniversary of holding detainees in Guantanamo Prison during a demonstration January 11, 2012 in front of the White House in Washington,DC. The White House insisted Monday that Obama was determined to close Guantanamo, which accepted its first prisoners on January 11, 2002, four months after Al-Qaeda flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantánamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees -- men too dangerous to transfer but who cannot be tried in a court of law.

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