In April, The New York Times' Charles Savage asked the government to release a list of the people still detained at the government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On Monday the Justice Department responded, providing one of the first complete looks at who the United States is holding, and what it plans to do with them.
On Thursday, the president plans to deliver a speech focusing drone attacks and military detention — a pretty sweeping agenda for a simple policy speech, one that might signal a sea change in America's counterterrorism efforts, and Obama's foreign policy legacy.
You'd think people would learn by now to avoid ever invoking the Nazis to defend yourself in an argument, but the former Bush press secretary turned pundit probably wishes he could take his most recent CNN debate point back.
A few days after The New York Times published a rather arresting column written by an inmate staging a hunger strike, 25 percent more prisoners have joined the protest.
After 11 years of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel has never gotten his day in court, but thanks to The New York Times op-ed page, he's finally getting his say in public.
A Navy officer testified on Tuesday that microphones disguised as smoke detectors were installed in the rooms where detainees meet with their lawyers. Don't worry, though. He swears they never used them.
The Senate added an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that bars the military from using any funds to transfer suspected terrorists to jails on American soil, and the president remains stuck in a bind.
Omar Khadr, the last westerner left in Guantanamo Bay and the facility's youngest inmate ever, was shipped back to his home country, Canada, early Saturday morning.
Remember torture? It used to be quite the scandal here in the United States, when officials at places like Guantanamo Bay would waterboard prisoners, but you don't hear about it as much anymore. Don't you know? Waterboarding is so suburban these days.
Giving yet another cause for pause in the constitutionally dubious detainment of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, a relatively small portion of those released -- 16 percent -- go on to become terrorists again.
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The Obama administration is considering the release of five Taliban prisoners to improve peace talks with the Afghan insurgency and now we know who's on the short list.
It appears the White House is moving to transfer five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an incentive to bring the Afghan insurgency closer to peace talks.
The Russian Foreign Ministry just posted a scathing overview of the United States' human rights violation -- many of them obviously reference Guantanamo and the Patriot Act -- that sort of reads like an old issue of The Nation Magazine.
Reuters report that the U.S. government has been in talks with the Taliban to broker a peace with the militant Islamists the U.S. invaded Afghanistan back in 2002 to overthrow in the first place.
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