Guantanamo Reunion
When they last met they were on different sides of a cage door at the world's most notorious prison. Now a former guard at Guantanamo Bay has reunited with two of his former prisoners from Britain...
View ArticleAlleged Cover-up of Prisoner Deaths at Guantánamo
Several soldiers who served at Guantánamo Bay in 2006 have alleged that the deaths of three Guantánamo inmates, previously ruled suicides by the U.S. government, were nothing of the sort ... and that...
View ArticleTrial to Begin for Youngest Guantánamo Detainee
Jury selection is set to get underway today in his controversial trial of 23-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr, the only Westerner remaining at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Khadr currently...
View ArticleGitmo Ruling Changes
Dafna Linzer, senior reporter at ProPublica Inc., and former national security reporter for The Washington Post, examines telling differences in the original and amended versions of a judge's order to...
View ArticleGhailani Verdict
Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried by a U.S. civilian court, was acquitted on all but one of more than 280 charges Wednesday by a jury in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. Karen...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Exposes Attempted Deals to Transfer Inmates Out of Gitmo
While President Obama has received much criticism for failing to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in the first year of his presidency, new classified documents released by WikiLeaks reveal the...
View ArticleGuantanamo Detainees to Be Tried in Military Courts
According to a New York Times article released today, the Obama administration is planning to prosecute Guantanamo detainees in military commission trials. This follows decisions by Congress to prevent...
View ArticleGitmo Song Remains the Same
After a two year ban, military trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees will resume, the Obama administration said on Monday. The administration said it remains committed to closing the controversial...
View ArticleWhere Will 5 Chinese Muslims Go After Gitmo?
The fate of the five remaining Chinese Muslims being held in Guantanamo Bay became murkier this week. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on behalf of the Uighurs — who have been cleared...
View ArticleWashington Report: Wikileaks Documents on Guantanamo Bay
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, joins Kerry Nolan to discuss Wikileaks documents about the Guantanamo Bay detention facility which were released Sunday...
View ArticleWhat's the Future of Guantánamo?
Wednesday marks the tenth anniversary of the United States opening a detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The past decade has seen no shortage of controversy about the base, both on legal and moral...
View ArticleGabfest Radio: The Through the Looking (Google) Glass Edition
On this week’s episode of Gabfest Radio from Slate and WNYC, Political Gabfest panelists Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how Apple and other corporations avoid paying U.S....
View ArticleEric Holder will resign, leaving a mixed legacy on national security issues
When he joined President Obama's cabinet, Attorney General Eric Holder was expected to oversee the shutdown of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That never happened, but Holder...
View ArticleChanging Guantanamo prison’s ZIP code isn’t a fix, critics argue
A U.S. Army soldier closes the gate at maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base on Aug. 25, 2004 in Guantanamo, Cuba. An unusual alliance of both Republican lawmakers and...
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