Topic: Guantanamo Bay
Mirandizing the political conversation: Obama administration gains a little breathing roomHammered for months by Republicans as soft on terrorism, Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the Obama administration are suddenly playing offense, offering to work with Congress on a law ...
Obama administration tries to block court review in case of 5 ethnic Chinese Muslims at GitmoThe Obama administration on Thursday sought to block further court review in the case of five Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay who want to be sent ...
A witchhunt orchestrated by George W. Bush supporters against government lawyers representing Guantanamo inmates has backfired, as conservatives joined the outcry against the McCarthy-like attacks.Some 700 US civilian and military lawyers have defended hundreds of the detainees held at the US naval ...
President Barack Obama appears near a compromise to allow military tribunals to move forward for the alleged September 11 plotters in exchange for a deal to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.Influential Republican Senator Lindsey Lindsey Graham has offered a deal that ...
Graham says he'll press his GOP colleagues to back Guantanamo closing if Obama backs tribunals A Republican senator is offering the White House a deal on terror trials.Graham, interviewed Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," says reversing Attorney General Eric Holder's plan ...
Human rights advocates voiced dismay Friday at signals President Barack Obama is considering a military tribunal for the September 11 plotters, backtracking on a plan for a civilian trial.The U-turn would reportedly be part of a compromise with Congress in hopes that ...
No New York:White House may switch to military trial for 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheik Mohammed Looking to breathe life into President Barack Obama's stalled pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, White House advisers are inching toward recommending military trials for alleged ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration bluntly urged the Congress on Thursday to steer clear of directing where terrorism suspects should be prosecuted, pushing back against efforts to require military rather than civilian trials."We believe it would be unwise and would set ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed spending $73 million to prosecute the five accused September 11 conspirators and one official said the trials could still be held in the heart of Manhattan.Last year, the Obama administration had to lobby ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused September 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and convicted and is likely to be executed, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Sunday.Interviewed on CNN's " "Gibbs did not confirm reports that the Obama administration has ...
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