Senate Democrats are in a difficult position, between the President and their House Democratic colleagues, as they decide whether or not to revive funding for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention ...

Differences appear to be developing among Congressional Dems on whether or not to fund the closing of GTMO, this after House Dems nixed a $50 million White House request to pay for the detention ...

A slight amplification on Lyle’s thorough post below: Lyle writes that “[i]f Judge Hogan’s rulings withstand appeals, they would wipe out many of the claims that detainees have made since Boumediene ...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says President Obama's inability to ...

There seems to be agreement that this morning's Supreme Court ruling is a very big deal. At the same time, there's also consensus that the decision means very little for the detainees themselves. (The ...

Mention Guantánamo and the usual image is barbed wire, men in orange jumpsuits, and a legal controversy that has made the United States a target of wide rebuke. Guantánamo as prison camp has eclipsed ...

A Kuwaiti national held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay for more than eleven-and-a-half years, who figured in an important Supreme Court ruling nine years ago, is making a new plea for his ...

MCGREGOR RANGE, N.M. -- The California National Guard's 670th Military Police Company, spent a month training here as part of their mobilization and training requirements for a deployment to ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement supporting President Obama’s commitment to close the detention ...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Feb. 10, 2015) -- Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh spoke to service members during a trip to see the detention facilities, Feb. 9, during his first trip to Joint Task Force ...

WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Attorneys for a terror suspect plan to appeal his case to the Supreme Court as the Pentagon presses for swifter action against detainees ...