Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the annual defense policy bill on Thursday, authorizing $633 billion in spending for 2014, strengthening protections for victims of sexual assault in the military and easing some transfers from the prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The U.S. general who opened the Guantanamo detention camp said Thursday it was a mistake and should be shut down because "it validates every negative perception of the United States."

Earlier this week the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate reached a compromise as part of an annual defense policy bill that would make it easier to transfer detainees from Guantanamo to foreign countries willing to take them.

In 2002, I led the first Joint Task Force to Guantanamo and established the detention facility.

Margaretta D'Arcy at Ennis District Court, where she tried to carry out a citizen's arrest on Judge Patrick Durcan A JUDGE was yesterday forced to retreat from his bench after a 79-year-old disabled grandmother tried to perform a citizen's arrest on him in court.

Do professional individuals who temporarily leave their jobs in order to faithfully serve our nation overseas deserve to re-assume their positions once their tours of duty are over? I assume most readers would say yes, but guess what the majority of the Orange City Council thinks? The answer may befuddle you, as it does Navy Reserve Captain Michael ... (more)

Three weeks after the first Obama-era parole board hearing at Guantanamo, a step toward realizing the White House goal of emptying the prison, the administration is still deciding what portions of a captive's plea for freedom the public may see.

Edmonton lawyer Dennis Edney, who has fought a decade-long battle for legal rights for Omar Khadr, received a prestigious human rights award Tuesday evening from the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia grilled the Department of Justice lawyers this week on the need for genital searches of Guantanamo detainees.

Will Edward Snowden get a hero's sendoff when he dies? Crikey 's writer-at-large hopes so, as he is a hero every bit as much as Mandela.

Republicans last week were celebrating a Harvard survey of "Millennial" voters -- those Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 -- showing that they have quite sharply turned their backs on both President Obama and his signature Affordable Care Act.

Lawmakers scurried Tuesday to avoid failing to pass a defense authorization bill for the first time in more than a half-century, as the nation's top military commander warned that further delay might imperil U.S. troops stationed around the globe.

Two U.N. special investigators say they fear that an Algerian man recently sent home from Guantanamo Bay against his will is in danger.

A commander's statement to "60 Minutes" about the extent that Guantanamo Bay prison guards are suffering from PTSD proved to be unsupported.

A federal court has declined to get involved in a dispute over medical care for an obese prisoner in declining health at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Top House and Senate negotiators unveiled a new agreement Monday on a sweeping military bill that includes Sen. Claire McCaskill's proposal to revamp the way the military deals with sexual assaults.

Some chief executives make promises that they know they probably cannot or will not keep.

Guantanamo Bay’s reputation as the dark heart of America’s war on terror tends to overshadow its more banal role as a naval base – filled with troops, their families and, to a lesser extent, their pretty, pretty cars.

Two congressional committees have agreed to make it easier for the Pentagon to transfer Guantanamo Bay prisoners to their home countries, surpassing a major hurdle in the Obama administration's ability to close the facility.

High school seniors this year were in kindergarten when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001.