Tag: Guantanamo Bay

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - JUNE 27: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) A watch tower is seen in the currently closed Camp X-Ray which was the first detention facility to hold 'enemy combatants' at the U.S. Naval Station on June 27, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, houses the American detention center for 'enemy combatants'. President Barack Obama has recently spoken again about closing the prison which has been used to hold prisoners from the invasion of Afghanistan and the war on terror since early 2002. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Senate set to open debate on defense authorization bill

Tim Mak · November 15, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said she believes Obamacare will be a key issue of the 2014 elections. (AP File)

GOP senators vow to block new efforts to close Gitmo

Susan Crabtree · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire, inside Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, on May 14, 2009. A formal review process for dozens of men being held at Guantanamo Bay without charge has begun as part of an effort to close the prison, the Pentagon said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Obama moves closer to shuttering Gitmo with help from U.N.

Susan Crabtree · November 7, 2013 5:00 am

More than half of the 164 prisoners who remain at Guantanamo Bay are from Yemen. (Michelle Shepard/Pool via Bloomberg)

National Security

Sen. Chambliss warns against sending Gitmo detainees to Yemen for rehab

Susan Crabtree · November 7, 2013 5:00 am

The White House framed its desire to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay in terms of taxpayer cost in an age of Pentagon budget austerity. (AP File)

Obama meets with Guantanamo closure envoys

Tim Mak · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

For hearings,ÃÂ Khalid Sheikh MohammedÃÂ is brought to Camp Justice, a specially named corner of the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. (Examiner/Tim Mak)

US spends $450 million annually on Gitmo facility where 9/11 trials are under way

Tim Mak · November 1, 2013 4:00 am

National Security

AUDIO SLIDESHOW: A tour of Gitmo’s notorious ‘Camp X-Ray’

Tim Mak · October 29, 2013 4:00 am

Footprints of a banana rat, with a lighter as a reference point. (Tim Mak/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Sept. 11 survivors plead for more coverage as case drags on

Tim Mak · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, is requesting that he be given a "Microsoft-enabled laptop computer" for use during his trial for war crimes, which is now underway.ÃÂ

National Security

Al Qaeda suspects want laptops, video software to use in cells

Tim Mak · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

In April, the CIA declassified a memo that revealed that the detainee who was violently tortured in "Zero Dark Thirty" was modeled after Guantanamo detainee Ammar al Balchi. His defense attorney says that the government provided some information to filmmakers, they have not provided information about his treatment in CIA custody to his defense team.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley)

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ becomes an issue in 9/11 war crimes trial

Tim Mak · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

A view of the outside gate at Camp X-Ray. (Tim Mak/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Gitmo’s notorious ‘Camp X-Ray’ slowly reclaimed by nature

Tim Mak · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba photo series. (Examiner/Tim Mak)

National Security

9/11 victim: U.S. government ‘caters’ to terror suspects at Gitmo

Tim Mak · October 24, 2013 4:00 am