Tag: Guantanamo Bay

White House Watch: What Will Trump Do With Terrorist Detainees?

Michael Warren · April 30, 2018 10:05 am

Since 2002, the ICC has convicted a grand total of four individuals and its budget is around $150 million a year. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File)

Beltway Confidential

It would be a terrible mistake to try the ISIS ‘Beatles’ at the Hague

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 1:11 pm

Kurdish forces captured Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh last month. Their capture ends the Islamic State group of four British fighters nicknamed "the Beatles" for their accents. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump should send the ‘Beatles’ to Guantanamo

Tom Rogan · February 9, 2018 11:00 am

President Trump has been critical of the speed at which trials by military commission moved. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Jim Mattis fires lawyer overseeing Guantánamo trials of 9/11 terrorists: Report

Katelyn Caralle · February 5, 2018 9:32 pm

President Donald Trump gestures as delivers his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan applaud. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Washington Secrets

Weekly Trump Report Card: Trump ‘shows heart and optimism’

Paul Bedard · February 3, 2018 12:17 pm

Trump's executive order could allow Jim Mattis to again send terror suspects aligned with the Islamic State and other groups to Guantanamo Bay, where their legal fate would remain uncertain and their detention indefinite. (AP Photo/Ben Fox)

National Security

Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open

Travis J. Tritten · January 31, 2018 3:23 am

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis made an unannounced visit to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to offer holiday greetings to troops on Thursday. He is the first Pentagon chief to visit the base in almost 16 years. (AP Photo/Ben Fox, File)

National Security

Jim Mattis is 1st Pentagon chief to visit Guantanamo since 2002

Associated Press · December 21, 2017 12:58 pm

"I want to hold this person as a suspected enemy combatant for a few days, let the intelligence community talk to him, gather as much intel as we can," Graham said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Lindsey Graham: NYC bombing suspect should be held as enemy combatant

Melissa Quinn · December 11, 2017 5:48 pm

On Wednesday, members from the House and the Senate struck an agreement on a bill that proposes a major hike in defense spending and a raft of Pentagon reforms. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Here’s a look at what did (and didn’t) make it into the $700 billion defense policy bill

Travis J. Tritten · November 8, 2017 10:38 pm

President Trump calls for Sayfullo Saipov to be sentenced to death if convicted of killing eight people and wounding 12 others by running people down with a truck Tuesday in New York. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National Security

Trump backtracks on sending NYC terror suspect to Guantanamo Bay

Anna Giaritelli · November 2, 2017 12:11 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday that now that Sayfullo Saipov is "lawyered up," plea bargaining may be the only way to retrieve more intelligence about the New York City terrorist attack that killed eight people Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Lindsey Graham: Trump making ‘huge mistake’ by not naming NYC terror suspect an enemy combatant

Diana Stancy Correll · November 1, 2017 10:43 pm

According to the White House on Wednesday, President Trump would consider naming the person who launched a terrorist attack in New York City as an enemy combatant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House: Trump considering naming NYC terror suspect ‘enemy combatant’

Sarah Bedford · November 1, 2017 7:41 pm