Differences appear to be developing among Congressional Dems on whether or not to fund the closing of GTMO, this after House Dems nixed a $50 million White House request to pay for the detention ...

MCGREGOR RANGE, N.M. -- The California National Guard's 670th Military Police Company, spent a month training here as part of their mobilization and training requirements for a deployment to ...

A slight amplification on Lyle’s thorough post below: Lyle writes that “[i]f Judge Hogan’s rulings withstand appeals, they would wipe out many of the claims that detainees have made since Boumediene ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement supporting President Obama’s commitment to close the detention ...

On July 1, President Obama announced that he was nominating Matthew Olsen for the position of National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) director. Olsen has served in a number of national ...

There seems to be agreement that this morning's Supreme Court ruling is a very big deal. At the same time, there's also consensus that the decision means very little for the detainees themselves. (The ...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Feb. 10, 2015) -- Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh spoke to service members during a trip to see the detention facilities, Feb. 9, during his first trip to Joint Task Force ...

The paint is drying on the newly renovated Commission building on McCalla Hill at the U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or GTMO, where the military trials of six suspected terrorists from the ...

As Lyle explains below, the Court today denied the cert. petitions in the Guantanamo detainee cases, choosing instead to wait until the Pentagon’s detention decisions have been reviewed by the U.S.

Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged President Obama to transfer suspected terrorists held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to facilities in the U.S. in a confidential memo. Clinton ...

What to make of the inconsistent (but honestly reported) news of the past two weeks about the administration's policy for trying Guantanamo detainees? Knowledgeable sources call them trial balloons, ...