Why President Obama Will Not Close Guantanamo Bay

As regular readers of Dreadnaught will recall, President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay within one year.  Then the president learned that it may not be so easy to close.  Congress then opposed the closing and withheld the necessary funds and limited the president’s ability to close GTMO. Now, in a recent WP article, there [...]

PETA Protests Waterboarding Of Chickens At GTMO

PETA protests the waterboarding of chickens at GTMO.

No Money To Move Detainees From Guantanamo Bay

From the WSJ Law Blog, A little less than a year ago, when President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, it seemed to many like a realistic goal. But the wind-down has been anything but smooth. Members of Congress have objected to efforts to bring the detainees to the [...]

Guantanamo Bay Detainees To Move To Illinois

The White House sent members of the Illinois congressional delegation a memo covering a series of questions they generated in the wake of President Obama’s order for the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for a prison to house detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. Thomson would be [...]

Haditha Update: LtCol Jeffrey Chessani To Retire As Lieutenant Colonel

LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, battalion commander for the Haditha Marines, is not punished.

Guantanamo Bay Detainees 9/11 To New York 5 Others To Military Commissions

Attorney General Eric Holder, on 13NOV09, announced that the 9/11 defendants (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “KSM,” Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi). AG Holder also announced that five cases would be headed for the military commissions: -Omar Khadr, born in Toronto, who was 15 when captured after allegedly killing [...]

Decision On Venue For Guantanamo Detainees To Be Announced

Obama administration set to announce where detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be tried.

Notes On Refinancing A Home

Having just completed the paperwork necessary to refinance a home mortgage, it is appropriate to share a few thoughts. First, there is a reason people hate lawyers, to wit, the preposterous number of signatures required.  For a simple refinance, same residence no second mortgage, it required a total of 32 signatures and 14 initials to [...]

Congress Approves Funds To Send Detainees To United States For Trial

Congress agrees to provide funding to move detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States for trial.

Military Commissions: Prosecution Seeks Third Continuance

Administration to seek 60 day delay in military commission cases, including the 9/11 case.

GTMO Detainees Shown Photos Of CIA Covert Agents

Military lawyers for some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have shown the detainees photographs of CIA personnel.

Danny Tarkanian Wins $150,000 In Damages From Defamation Lawsuit

Danny Tarkanian, son of Jerry “Tark the Shark” Tarkanian, was awarded, $50,000 in damages. Schneider has agreed not to appeal the verdict. Jurors were scheduled to hear Schneider, a real estate consultant, testify today as to his finances then decide on punitive damages. The deal was reached prior to the hearing. Tarkanian’s attorney, Gus Flangas, [...]

Marine Corps Banns Access To Twitter, Facebook, And MySpace

The Marine Corps recently published MARADMIN 0458/09, entitled IMMEDIATE BAN OF INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (SNS) ON MARINE CORPS ENTERPRISE NETWORK (MCEN) NIPRNET, which prohibits access, TO INTERNET SNS FROM THE MCEN NIPRNET, INCLUDING OVER VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) CONNECTIONS. The SNS mentioned in the order include, FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, AND TWITTER. At first blush this [...]

GTMO Update: Afghanistan Ready To Pick Up Jawad From GTMO

Here is an update from SCOTUSBLOG on U.S. v. Jawad,’ Urging a federal judge to order the immediate release of a young prisoner from Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers warned on Tuesday of a constitutional confrontation if the Obama Administration resists such an order.  In the new filing by attorneys for Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan national, [...]

D.C. Military-Style Checkpoints Not Constructional

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the military-style checkpoints in D.C. are unconstitutional. 

Gates To Make Change to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Change to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell could be coming.

President Obama To Issue Executive Order Authorizing Indefinite Detention Of Those Held In Guantanamo Bay

A recent WaPo article outlines some of the options being considered by the Obama administration for GTMO detainees. Under one White House draft that was being discussed this month, according to administration officials, detainees would be imprisoned at a military facility on U.S. soil, but their ongoing detention would be subject to annual presidential review. [...]

Congress Limits The President’s Ability To Close Guantanamo Bay

First, the title of this post is a bit misleading.  President Obama never made a promise to close Guantanamo Bay (GTMO).  He only ordered that the detention facility, holding those captured in the GWOT be closed by January 2010.  That being said, the recent bill signed into law by the president, H.R. 2346: Supplemental Appropriations [...]

Supreme Court Will Not Take Action On Uighur Case Until Next Term

The Supreme Court will not hear Kiyemba, et al. v. Obama, et al. until next term, October at the earliest. Because the Court took no formal action on Kiyemba Monday, there was no explanation.  It is possible to speculate on the reasons. Among them could be that the Court did not want to be seen [...]

Uighurs To Bermuda

From Reuters, Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration’s latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects. Their release took place the same day China repeated its demand for repatriation of all 17 members of the Uighur ethnic [...]

Husband And Wife Spy For Cuba

From AP, A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described as “incredibly serious.” An indictment unsealed Friday said Walter Kendall [...]