Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a National Security Council briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received a NSC briefing in an interview this morning .

TERRORISTS by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things.

Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not falling for her "fearmongering" -- and say they want Gitmo detainees in their town.

Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown wants President Barack Obama to overrule the attorney general on trying the accused Sept.

Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history.

Republicans Trey Grayson and Rand Paul exchanged sharp words on the issue of Guantanamo Bay, and Democrats Jack Conway and Daniel Mongiardo squabbled about their alliances with coal.

Republican members of Congress from Illinois have a few questions for Gov. Pat Quinn about possibly using a state prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Posted on Nov 19, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . The Obama administration is considering buying the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois, about 15 miles northeast of Clinton, Iowa, to house terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.

In an unusual written response to Yoani Sanchez, who has gained international acclaim for daring to criticize her government online, Obama also said it is up to Cuba to act if it wants normal relations with Washington, saying that a true thaw in nearly 50 years of deep-freeze "will require action by the Cuban government." His comments were posted ...

Senior judges say the foreign secretary is stopping them releasing details of CIA interrogation techniques - even though the US has published them.

Aside from taking a moment to wish the Obamas a "happy and joyous holiday season," FOX News 's Major Garrett cut right to the chase in his interview with President Obama in Beijing.

Fedearl Bureau of Prisons director Harley Lappin talks Monday about jobs that would be created in the Thomson, Ill., area from Guantanamo Bay detainees being held at the Thomson Correctional Facility.

With nearly 4,000 swine flu deaths so far in the U.S. Congress wants to know, are terror suspects getting the vaccine first, before students, pregnant women, and sick Americans? A key health official did a 180 when pressed on that Wednesday.

Nov. 18, 2009 / 1 Kislev 5770 By Jonah Goldberg I get where President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming from.

The rights of a Guantanamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday.

British spies can keep some evidence secret from former Guantanamo prisoners who are suing the government for alleged complicity in their detention, a British judge ruled Wednesday, the first volley in a legal battle to expose what role Britain played in the men's imprisonment.

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept.

This Oct. 16, 2006 file photo shows Lynne Stewart speaking to the media and her supporters outside Manhattan federal court following her sentencing in New York.

A Republican congressman from Illinois says his comment that suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.