Topic: Guantanamo Bay
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obama administration officials will visit a virtually empty Illinois prison this week as a possible location to house foreign terrorism suspects moved from the Guantanamo Bay prison President Barack Obama has vowed to shut, the state's governor's office said ...
US President Barack Obama remains committed to closing the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, but may not meet a January 2010 deadline, a top White House aide said on Sunday. "We believe we are going to substantially meet the deadline," David Axelrod, senior ...
US President Barack Obama remains committed to closing the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, but may not meet a January 2010 deadline, a top White House aide said on Sunday. "We believe we are going to substantially meet the deadline," David Axelrod, senior ...
President Barack Obama's top lawyer Greg Craig formally resigned Friday in his highest-level White House shake-up to date, amid a struggle to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp by early 2010.Craig, a veteran Washington hand who led the embattled effort to shutter ...
The Obama administration said Monday it has taken a " major step" toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison now that the Pacific island nation of Palau has resettled six Chinese Muslim Uighurs.The six, who had been held for more than seven years ...
Terror detainees get stronger rights in military trials; critics say new rules aren't enoughPresident Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights ...
A group of top US acts including REM and Pearl Jam on Thursday expressed outrage that loud music was being blasted at Guantanamo detainees as part of " terror" interrogations.They said they were filing a lawsuit in a bid to declassify documents ...
Judge keeps secret portions of detainee interrogation documents that may describe abuseA federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and abuse.The ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to allow foreign terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison into the United States to face trial.The 307 to 114 vote removes one of many roadblocks the Obama administration faces as it ...
Privacy, anti-terrorism, media issues divide Obama and his liberal allies in CongressNew cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue some Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to ...
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