The Obama administration released six Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them to Uruguay for resettlement as refugees amid the president’s renewed efforts to close down the facility. Upon taking office, President Obama pledged to close down the U.S. military
On June 4, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Barack Obama could face “impeachment” if he continued to release terror detainees from the military prison facility at Guantánamo Bay without Congress’s explicit approval. On Thursday, however–the same day that
(Washington, D.C.)–Three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the Country of Georgia, according to the Pentagon. On November 20, the Department of Defense announced the transfers of Salah Mohammed Salih Al-Dhabi, Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim, and Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani.
Senior U.S. intelligence and Defense officials told Fox News that to up to 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees may have returned to the battlefield, surmising that they have formed an alliance with Islamic State and other jihadist organizations including Al
On Oct. 11, The Daily Beast released an article entitled “The Resurrection of Kristen Stewart” in which Stewart commented on the alleged mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba while promoting her newest film, Camp X-Ray. The following day, Breitbart News
In advance of the release of her most recent film project, Camp X-Ray, Kristen Stewart conducted an interview with The Daily Beast which was, in turn, covered here at Breitbart News, which, in turn, was covered by The Daily Beast
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) is threatening to “shut down the Senate” if President Obama uses executive power to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and bring its terrorist prisoners to the U.S. “I stopped him once from trying
MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann said that ISIS terrorists waterboarding American hostages was “the price of Abu Ghraib and … continuing the camp in Guantanamo” on Friday’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” on MSNBC. “We shouldn’t be surprised about this. Unfortunately, that’s
A report published Thursday by the Government Accountability Office found that the Department of Defense violated the law twice when it transferred 5 prisoners from Gitmo without providing notice to Members of Congress. The five prisoners were part of a
The new trailer for Camp X-Ray may feel like a blast from Hollywood’s recent past. The film industry cranked out a series of films critical of both President George W. Bush and his conduct of the War on Terror during
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg plans on staying on the U.S. Supreme Court for the time being, creating the possibility that her seat will be a factor in the 2016 presidential election. On July 30, Ginsburg sat down with Katie Couric
Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a military court’s conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul for conspiracy to commit war crimes. However, the court also vacated two other convictions against Bahlul
The Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI) has uncovered a tweet containing a photo of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl standing and smiling with a Taliban commander. Bergdahl became the center of intense media scrutiny when stories of his desertion and sympathy
Over the weekend terrorists declared the formation of an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. In Afghanistan, the New York Times recently reported that the Taliban was responsible for “one of the most significant coordinated assaults on the government in
FNC’s “Justice” host Jeanine Pirro last night went after President Barack Obama’s “feckless week foreign policy” creating chaos in the middle east. Pirro called the president a “clueless a paper tiger” who didn’t “have the balls” to prosecute the five
On June 16 Spain’s interior ministry said they had arrested eight persons, including a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, “for allegedly recruiting militants to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS). The recruited militants had “already been sent
Some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists at Guantanamo love watching World Cup soccer. In fact, it is the most popular program among the 149 detainees accused of some of the most ruthless acts of terror. “Right now, it’s the
Johnny Micheal Spann’s daughter Alison was nine years old when he was murdered by rioting Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan in 2001, making him the first American to die in the war. 13 years later, she got to watch Barack Obama
On Tuesday’s “On the Record,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, offered a few of the unclassified details from a closed-door briefing the White House gave on Tuesday concerning the swap of five
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) filed legislation on Monday that would place a six month freeze on any federal government funding involved in the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. The White House is under considerable pressure and
“What’s emerging is an imperial presidency, an uber presidency as I’ve called it, where the president can act unilaterally. This is only the latest example of that… Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be.“ That’s constitutional
Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh laid out his take on the Obama administrations prisoner exchange of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five top Taliban commanders as an excuse to close down “Club Gitmo.” Limbaugh argued
It is truly a fool’s errand for any decent person of conscience governed by honesty to engage in debate with the likes of these people. Never has that folly been more acute than in the aftermath of the President’s release
According to a Senator who has been defending the administration’s deal for Bowe Bergdahl, the 5 Taliban prisoners would have been freed sometime soon anyway, making this our last chance to get something for them. Senator Angus King, an independent
Calling the transaction that freed Bowe Bergdahl, “ghastly”, former attorney general Michael Mukasey made the argument in the Washington Post that the release of five top Taliban commanders was the first phase of Obama’s plan to make good on his promise to
