Tag: gitmo
Wiretap: The attack in New York was long planned, but the...
Prosecutors say that the terror attack was a long-planned attack relying on ISIS videos as a reference point. As the charges are put forth,...
Why Gitmo detainees won’t save a dud Colorado supermax
The plan to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has triggered a flurry of election-year fear mongering about the possibility of federal detainees...
GOP forces Obama’s Gitmo shutdown plans into 2016 debate
Sen. Cory Gardner sent a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday demanding that the Department of Defense drop any plans to transfer detainees from the Guantanamo...
News Poem: ‘Decline’
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"I wrote this poem in Denver, CO, in the summer of 2013, when the story broke in the...
Gridlocking the pope on Gitmo
The Vatican has waded into the debate, frozen on Capitol Hill for six years, concerning the status of the men held in legal limbo...
A Gitmo Camp Delta photo notebook
President Obama is more than four months past the deadline he set to shutter the internationally infamous Camp Delta War on Terror prison and interrogation facility here. Approximately 180 detainees remain behind the wire and within the walls of the seven camps of the prison. They have been here for years and most have never been charged with a crime or wartime offense. Attorneys representing Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen imprisoned here as a teenager in 2002 and one of the few charged with a crime--murder and material support for terrorism-- will argue at a pre-trial hearing tomorrow that coerced testimony should be banned from his military commission trial.