While the nation was focused on Syria, The Obama administration transferred two al Qaeda terrorists from GITMO to the government of Algeria as part of its ongoing effort to close the prison. Via Reuters: The Pentagon announced the transfer of
A Yemeni accused of the September 11 attacks walked out of a courtroom at Guantanamo Bay, claiming that the lack of food he received amounts to “psychological torture.” Ramzi Binalshibh, one of five men on trial over the hijacking and
Whether the topic is drones, the NSA or New York’s stop-and-frisk–the entire nation is struggling to find its footing on the question of security vs. constitutional rights. While leading Republicans skirmish over the issue via the media, presumed Democratic frontrunner
Author John Grisham is upset that the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay don’t have access to his popular legal thrillers. Grisham wrote an op-ed for The New York Times to decry the book banning, using it as the start of a
Reuters is reporting that the Fifty Shades of Grey series is “the favorite reading material among former CIA captives held at the Guantanamo detention camp.” Rep Jim Moran (D-VA) toured Camp 7 at Gitmo last week. Camp 7 is home
Without an official announcement or any publicity, the Obama administration released five members of the Taliban from Gitmo in order to open peace talks in Afghanistan. Ynetnews.com reports that “a top U.S. official said the prisoners were released under the
According to a report in the New York Post, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay are so pampered that even hunger strikers gain weight. The report shows that far from facing the kind of hardships we might naturally associate with being imprisoned,
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl disappeared in eastern Afghanistan four years ago. A Taliban spokesman told the Associated Press that Bergdahl is in good condition. The Taliban said they will free him in exchange for five senior operatives being held at
Kristen Stewart no longer has the Twilight franchise to power her big screen career. Her next project should endear her to her industry peers all the same, given the blurb of information released Tuesday at Deadline.com. Stewart will headline Camp
One of the most overlooked bits of Obama’s drone speech last week was the claim that capturing terrorists is always our first option before using drone strikes. Obama claimed “America does not take strikes when we have the ability to
Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to no one’s surprise, supports President Obama’s belief that the prison on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “incites our enemies,” and should be shut down. Wasserman Schultz also believes that if the prison remains open, that intelligence
Sunday on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry compared Guantanamo Bay detainees to American slaves during the 19th century. “This is the time to reaffirm our Americanness,” she said in response to a hunger strike by the terror suspects. She continued: “I
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry : “I also appreciate that the hunger strikers are not trying to die. They’re trying to generate autonomy in the context of something that strips their humanity-something we certainly know about from the experience of American slavery.”
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to criticize President Obama’s statements about Guantanamo Bay. “I’m offended by the moralizing,” King said. “The fact is, whether you agree or disagree with Guantanamo, many experts believe that
In his “drone speech” Thursday, President Barack Obama referred to the oft-cited argument that the U.S. should close the Guantánamo Bay terror detention facility (GTMO) because it stirs anti-American opinion: “GTMO has become a symbol around the world for an
President Barack Obama called on Congress to take action, so Guantamo terrorist detainees can be transferred to the United States at a designated detention site in the country, where military trials and commissions can take place. “There is no justification beyond
Thursday morning on Chris Jansing’s MSNBC show, Politico Senior Reporter Lois Romano referred to Guantanamo Bay as a “really bad political tar baby” for President Obama: JANSING: Lois, let me start with Guantanamo Bay. Everybody knows [Obama] made this campaign
Requests revealed on May 21 show the Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintenance and upkeep of Guantanamo prison. According to Fox News, this figure includes “$200 million for military construction work that could stretch over a decade.” The request
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/21: Threats from Anonymous shut down Gitmo’s Wi-Fi, teens using Facebook less, social media is front line during disasters, Twitter toilet prank lands student in trouble, Teen Mom 2 star
Whenever Andrew Breitbart saw that somebody was being unfairly maligned by the institutional Left, he became that person’s stalwart defender. Sarah Palin, perhaps more than any other person in recent history, endured the full weight of what Breitbart called the
To say that Dave Perry, the editor of the Aurora Sentinel doesn’t like the NRA would be a colossal understatement. He wrote in a recent oped that they are the real terrorists in America, and the “guilty monsters” should be
The Obama administration has placed Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev in federal custody with plans to give him a civilian criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. That’s what the Constitution requires, though some will undoubtedly question that decision.
In reaction to the reported hunger strikes in the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the President still holds the position that the prison should be closed. Carney blamed Congress for slowing things
Twenty-four of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 inmates are on a hunger strike to protest President Barack Obama’s broken promise to close the detention facility. “They had great optimism that Guantanamo would be closed. They were devastated apparently…when the president backed off,
