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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

President Obama On Guantanamo Detainees And Military Commissions

President Obama gives speech outlining the way forward on Guantanamo Bay and military commissions.