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 [...]