Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

Finally, the flashback we were all waiting for: we learn that before the blackout, whiny, ineffectual U.S. government bureaucrat Ed Truman was a whiny, ineffectual U.S. government soldier at Guantanamo Bay, until the whole federal government sailed up.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama renewed his unfulfilled commitment to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

For me one of the most horrifying revelations about the torture carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency at its black sites, and the military at its prisons, was that medical doctors not only stood by to monitor the process but were also involved in providing advice to make the torture both mentally and physically more effective.

When I wrote a book about mobs and group-think a few years ago, I could honestly say that mob behavior existed exclusively on the left in America -- unless you count Oakland Raiders tailgate parties, which I do not.

After Cuba's revolution in 1959, Havana squandered what was arguably its best opportunity to force the United States to abandon its lease of a naval base at Guantanamo: a legal doctrine that allows a nation to terminate a treaty if a fundamental change occurs in the circumstances that led to it.

As I followed some stone steps leading through a pretty courtyard to the side entrance of the Unitarian Church of All Souls on the upper East side of New York last Thursday [1-9-14], I drew in a serious lungful of cold, crisp night air to help gird myself for what I was about to hear and see.

Don Vogel of Spokane, Washington, who committed his life to serving others, is excited to do it one last time.

Hassan, who has been held in Guantanamo since 2002, alleges that he has been force-fed more than 5,000 times since 2007 [IBT report] in an effort to end his hunger strike.

The Pentagon is now terming the refusal to eat by Muslim inmates at the GuantA namo Bay prison not as "hunger striking," but as "long term non-religious fasting," the Miami Herald reported.

I was raised in an America engaged in World War II. We gasped in horror at the cruel and inhumane behavior of those evil Japs and Nazis and were so glad to live in a country which did not physically abuse prisoners.

We're five days into a hunger strike by immigrants being detained behind bars by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center.

A lawyer for a group of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba is accusing the military of torture.

The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay In December, the US Defense Department shifted to considering the year-long hunger strike among Guantanamo detainees as "long term non-religious fasting", according to a forced-feeding protocol document.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA's improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department.

A Tennessee man was to appear in court Tuesday on charges of kidnapping and murdering 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo, an indictment that came almost three years after her highly publicized disappearance.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be joined in her March 24 presentation at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey by Thomas Wilner, an international attorney who successfully represented Guantanamo detainees before the Supreme Court in 2004 and 2008.

A Yemeni inmate at Guantanamo Bay is taking the military's practice of force-feeding hunger strike participants.

In what is being hailed as a "historic legal challenge" to the United States government, a U.S. court will hear for the first time from a Guantnamo detainee who claims that force-feeding at the U.S. military prison amounts to torture.

There will be no more hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay, according to a new document first reported on Monday night.

Sen. Rand Paul is insistent he can spread the appeal of the GOP to young people with a foreign policy that sounds like President Obama on steroids , drug reform/legalization and use of a bunch of pop culture references.