Tag: Guantanamo Bay

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, sent a letter this week to President Obama reminding him that lawmakers expect a plan on their desks in just over two weeks. (AP Photo)

National Security

Deadline looms for Obama to send Gitmo closure plan to Congress

Jacqueline Klimas · February 6, 2016 5:01 am

"Any plan to close Guantanamo by relocating detainees to the U.S. is a non-starter," read a statement from Paul Ryan's office. (AP Photo)

GOP: Bringing Gitmo detainees to U.S. a ‘non-starter’

Nicole Duran · January 26, 2016 6:01 pm

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told the Topeka Capital-Journal last week that he has placed a hold on the confirmation of Eric Fanning and intends to do so for the remainder of this year. (AP Photo)

National Security

Obama’s Army nomination may sink over Gitmo fight

Jacqueline Klimas · January 26, 2016 4:38 pm

"I've said from the day I was nominated to be secretary of defense I think, on balance, it would be a good thing to close Gitmo," Carter said. (AP photo/Wilfredo Lee)

National Security

Ash Carter: Closing Guantanamo Bay ‘would be a good thing’

Sarah Bedford · January 24, 2016 4:07 pm

The administration moved Tariq el Sawah to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Abdelaziz al Swidi to Montenegro. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

National Security

Obama transfers two more Gitmo detainees

Susan Crabtree · January 21, 2016 7:17 pm

National Security

McCain loses faith in Obama’s Gitmo plan

Susan Crabtree · January 21, 2016 5:01 am

Supreme Court review could limit Obama’s executive actions

Susan Crabtree · January 20, 2016 5:01 am

The administration has transferred 20 detainees so far in 2015, according to data compiled by the New York Times. (AP file photo/Ben Fox)

National Security

Gitmo is emptying out. So now what?

Jacqueline Klimas · January 15, 2016 12:55 am

The Obama administration has been releasing Guantanamo Bay detainees at a steady clip in the hopes of obviating the need for the detention center, which Obama wants to shut down. (AP Photo/Ben Fox, File)

National Security

Gitmo population falls below 100 for the first time since 2002

Jacqueline Klimas · January 14, 2016 4:20 pm

President Obama delivers his State of the Union address in 2010. He promised to create a website that publishes every lawmakers' earmark requests. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Watch: 140 SOTU promises Obama made and never kept

Anna Giaritelli · January 12, 2016 11:28 pm

Sens. Kelly Ayotte, N.H., and Lindsey Graham, S.C., sent a letter to the chairman and ranking members of the committee urging them to call a hearing "at the earliest possible date" to investigate the administration's transfer of prisoners they deem high-risk and likely to return to the fight. (AP Photo)

National Security

GOP senators call for hearing on Gitmo transfers

Jacqueline Klimas · January 11, 2016 9:10 pm

Pro-Christie super PAC highlights promise to keep Gitmo open

Kelly Cohen · January 5, 2016 1:32 pm