President Obama's speech on counterterrorism on Thursday won rave reviews among some who seemed to see it as a return of the liberal constitutional law professor who ran for president in 2008. But while the tone might have been refreshing, maybe we should wait to see Obama's follow-through?
President Obama will say he sees a day when the War on Terror comes to an end in a much anticipated speech Thursday afternoon. But when-ish will the War on Terror really end? It's going to be a while — maybe long after Obama has left office.
In his much-anticipated national security speech on Thursday, President Obama will reportedly revisit his longstanding pledge to close Guantanamo. And in the coming weeks, Obama will reportedly announce the restart of detainee transfers to Yemen
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.
In a news cycle already clogged with troubling reports from Guantanamo Bay arrives an even more troubling report: In January, a guard fired a "non-lethal" round at a prisoner.
Despite the lawyers of over a dozen inmates reporting a widespread hunger strike happening right now inside Guantanamo, a prison spokesperson issued a no-such-thing statement on Monday.
On the same day that the September 11th high-jackers returned to court, word came that the office responsible for closing the prison has itself been closed, adding another entry to the long list of scuttled attempts to shut down the detention facility.
This should fuel some of the Zero Dark Thirty controversy fire once more: the movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which contains a controversial depiction of torture, will screen at the place that became synonymous with torture.
Lawyers at Guantanamo aren't exactly sure what to do after a number of suspected terrorists have decided not to show up for their own trials.
"I've been abused worse than the detainees have been abused," J.D. Gordon, then the Navy's spokesman at Guantanamo Bay told The Washington Post in 2009, lamenting the lack of a media uproar over his accusations that a Miami Herald reporter was sexually harassing him.
Some detainees don't think hunger strikes work anymore
The suspects will receive at least 8 charges including terrorism and hijacking an aircraft
The detainee was an avowed al Qaeda coordinator
Rising tensions between Shiite and Sunni lawmakers erupted today
On stifling Jewish intellectuals, reading the Wikileaks files, and recalling the Civil War
One Representative isn't buying the argument that Gitmo is worth a second look
On Pakistan, fighting terrorists, and the media's mishandling of student celebrations
Worldwide, the "harsh interrogation" debate is being revisited
Conservatives argue the raid validates the Bush era anti-terror policies
A Pakistani teenager was sent to Cuba after he was raped by members of an Afghan tribe
The Justice Department says the documents are stil classified
Casio watches denote Al-Qaeda members and a former detainee is now a U.S.-supported Libyan rebel
Detainee files contain Al Qaeda revelations, including a threat of a "nuclear hellstorm"
Current and former administration officials provide the anatomy of a failure
On going easy on Palin, military tribunals, and a conservative in favor of ObamaCare
The gap between candidate and president Obama on war powers touches a liberal nerve
President Obama has not been able to keep his promise to close the detention facility
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