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(Newser) - A Pentagon report concludes that 74 of 534 prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay returned to militant activity—a recidivism rate of 14%, or about 1 in 7, the New York Times notes. The report, still under review, could complicate President Obama’s goal of shutting the facility by January because... More »

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Pentagon • extremists • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • suspected terrorists • Gitmo

 Gitmo Inmates 
 May Be Held 
 Indefinitely in US 

Detainees may be held without trial under authority of national security court

May 14, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is considering moving the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay to US soil and holding them in prisons indefinitely without trial, the Wall Street Journal reports. The proposal would take place under the authority of a new national-security court, according to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has met... More »

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military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • detention without trial • Obama administration • Jay-ZTV

 Dems Deny Obama 
 Funds to Close Gitmo 

House Democrats say president needs to come up with a plan first

May 5, 09 2:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's request for $80 million to close Guantanamo Bay was cut from the House version of a war spending bill unveiled yesterday, CNN reports. Democratic lawmakers, whose bill totaled $94.2 billion, said if the president wants money to close Guantanamo Bay then he'll first have to come up... More »

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House Appropriations Committee • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • House Democrats • war funding • President Obama

Fleischer: 
Subpoena Me
—I Dare You

Ex-Bush spokesman
would 'be proud to testify' about torture

May 1, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think there should be an investigation of his boss’s torture program. But “I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena,” he said during a panel discussion yesterday. “I’m proud of what we did to protect... More »

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Bush administration • torture • investigation • Guantanamo Bay • subpoena • black sites • Ari Fleischer • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Gideon Yago

On Gitmo, Obama Has a NIMBY Problem

Congress balks at funds, authority to
move detainees to US

May 1, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has ordered that Guantanamo be closed by the end of the year, but finding a place for the prisoners the administration can neither try nor export is turning into a political nightmare. A Pentagon request for $50 million to relocate the prisoners is running into crossfire in Congress,... More »

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Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • appropriations • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration

(Newser) - The fate of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay remains unclear, but Robert Gates hinted at one possibility during a Senate hearing today, reports the New York Times: Inmates who aren’t tried, repatriated, or sent to other countries could wind up in the US. Of the 250 “enemy combatants” in... More »

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Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • Department of Defense • Guantanamo prisoners • Gitmo

 US 'Close' on 
 Fate of Gitmo 
 Prisoners 

First group may be released to Va.

Apr 27, 09 1:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is close to deciding whether to free an initial group of Guantanamo detainees, AP reports. Attorney General Eric Holder didn't specify how long it would be before Gitmo closes, but said he must first determine how many prisoners will be released or tried. "We're doing these all... More »

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War on Terror • Attorney General • Europe • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees • Eric Holder

(Newser) - More details are emerging from the Obama camp's debate on how to handle the Bush interrogation memos. In the Washington Post, Dan Balz writes that President Obama rejected the idea of setting up an investigation panel along the lines of the 9/11 Commission. Obama wanted to move on rather than... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • interrogation • Guantanamo prisoners • harsh interrogation • President Obama

opinion

 We Need a Torture Commission 


Apr 16, 09 9:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama appears ready to put the whole issue of CIA torture behind him. He owes it to the nation to do otherwise, writes Mark Benjamin in Salon. In particular, he should appoint a torture commission—a bipartisan group to evaluate what, if anything, the US gained from these interrogation... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • President Obama

(Newser) - Among the weirder revelations emerging from the newly released CIA memos on harsh interrogations: Bush administration lawyers approved the use of insects. Apparently, one detainee in particular had a phobia about them, so interrogators wanted to slip one into his "cramped confinement box," Time reports. The technique never... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • torture • insects • Guantanamo prisoners • harsh interrogation

OPINION

'Fatuous'
Obama Does
US No Favors: Krauthammer

Big talk yields little help from European allies

Apr 10, 09 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is out in the world, "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray" and badmouthing past American actions, and to what end? Charles Krauthammer, writing in the New York Times, doesn't see any satisfactory answers. "I'm not against gift-giving in international relations," he writes.... More »

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Russia • North Korea • Europe • Austria • disarmament • foreign policy • Guantanamo prisoners • G20 • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer

 Red Cross: 
 Med Workers 
 Complicit in 
 Gitmo Torture 

Professionals told CIA interrogators to stop, go

Apr 7, 09 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Red Cross is accusing medical personnel of deep involvement in CIA torture at Guantanamo, calling it “a gross breach of medical ethics,” the New York Times reports. Medical professionals monitored procedures such as waterboarding, telling interrogators to “continue, to adjust, or stop particular methods,” finds... More »

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torture • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • International Committee of the Red Cross • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • medical ethics

Gitmo So 'Fun,' Miss Universe 'Didn't Want to Leave'

'It was very interesting,' she writes in blog

Apr 1, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Not many people have fun at Guantanamo Bay, but Miss Universe did. Caracas-born beauty Dayana Mendoza visited the US naval base surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers yesterday, and had a "relaxing, calm" time, she said. It was a "loooot of fun!" she wrote in her blog.... More »

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Venezuela • Miss Universe • Guantanamo Bay • USO • Guantanamo prisoners • Miss Universe pageant • Miss Venezuela

Yemen Doc Cleared to Leave
Gitmo After 7 Years

Justice Department clears detainee for transfer to unknown country

Mar 31, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Yemeni doctor held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 has been cleared for transfer abroad as part of the administration's review of prisoner cases, reports CNN. Justice Department officials say the hard part now will be to find a country willing to take him. The Bush administration once claimed the... More »

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Department of Justice • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Yemen • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda

Brits Condoned Torture, Aided Extraordinary Renditions: UN

UK a full partner in US terror effort, report says

Mar 13, 09 4:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Binyam Mohamed, a recently released Gitmo detainee, alleges that he was tortured in Morocco while asked questions on behalf of Britian’s MI5. His story so far has amounted to his word against MI5’s, but a new report supports the former detainee’s claim, the Economist reports. A UN... More »

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CIA • rendition • torture • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • human rights abuse • Britain • Guantanamo prisoners • MI5

Gitmo Prisoners 'Proud' to Have Planned 9/11

Court filing describes attacks as holy offering

Mar 10, 09 2:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five Guantanamo prisoners have taken full responsibility for planning 9/11 and say they're proud of the attacks, the New York Times reports. A document filed with a military commission by the five men, which may be made public today, describes the attacks as a model of Islamic action and the... More »

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September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda • 9/11 attacks • Ramzi Binalshibh

Gitmo Abuse Worse Under Obama: Lawyer

Guards 'get their kicks in' before controversial prison shuts down

Feb 25, 09 2:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay has gone up since the election of President Obama, who’s promised to close the facility, a lawyer tells Reuters. Detainees represented by Ahmed Ghappour complained of beatings, dislocation of limbs, overfeeding while on hunger strike, and pepper spray on their toilet paper. “Guards... More »

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War on Terror • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • physical abuse • President Obama • abuse of power

Gitmo Prisoner in Rendition Dispute
Arrives in UK

British AG may press charges in torture case

Feb 23, 09 8:12 AM CST
(Newser) - The Guantanamo Bay prisoner at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Britain and the United States has been released and landed in the UK today. Binyam Mohamed alleges he was tortured when the CIA rendered him to Morocco, but a British court decided not to release relevant documents after... More »

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rendition • torture • United Kingdom • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Binyam Mohamed

Did Gitmo Turn 'Lost Kid'
Into Suicide Bomber? 

Case highlights questions as Obama decides inmates' fate

Feb 22, 09 11:19 AM CST
(Newser) - A young Guantanamo inmate described by a lawyer as just "a kid who was lost" ended up bombing an Iraqi army outpost last year, killing 13 soldiers. While he was originally thought to be a low-level Taliban fighter—one of the “least dangerous” at Gitmo—his lawyer says... More »

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Taliban • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration

(Newser) - The fate of 17 Chinese Muslims imprisoned at Guantanamo since 2002 remains in flux after the DC Circuit Court of Appeals blocked their release to the US today. That reverses a lower court ruling that said the prisoners—members of the Uighur ethnic group who are no longer considered enemy... More »

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China • War on Terror • federal courts • US Court of Appeals • Guantanamo prisoners • Chinese Muslims

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