Congressional War Vets Warn Biden Against Shuttering Gitmo

The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base

Adam Kredo
February 1, 2021 4:59 AM

A group of Republican war veterans in Congress are pressuring the Biden administration to reconsider its plans to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and relocate, potentially to the United States, the 40 terrorists currently being held in the facility.

Resistance Hero Neal Katyal Reps Corporation Accused of Child Slavery in Supreme Court

Kevin Daley
December 1, 2020 5:15 PM

Neal Katyal, the progressive lawyer who led the legal fight against the president's travel ban and urged the public to take an unforgiving stance toward those involved with child separation at the U.S. border, appeared in the Supreme Court on Tuesday to defend two corporations accused of abetting child slavery.

Judge Sets Trial Date For 9/11 Plotters

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four others to face 2021 trial

Graham Piro
August 30, 2019 2:55 PM

A military judge has set the date for the trial of five men who planned the 9/11 attacks. The trial will be held at Guantanamo Bay on Jan. 11, 2021, according to the New York Times.

Continetti: ‘We Have Room in Gitmo’ for Hoda Muthana, Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS

Washington Free Beacon Staff
February 21, 2019 9:13 PM

Senators Want Captured ISIS Fighters Sent to Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp

Top GOP senators petition Trump to reopen Gitmo to hundreds of foreign fighters

The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo

Adam Kredo
January 22, 2019 5:20 PM

A leading group of Republican senators is petitioning the Trump administration to reopen the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to hundreds of foreign ISIS fighters captured on the battlefield, according to a copy of a letter sent Tuesday to the White House and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Dem Congressional Candidate Financed Legal Representation for Several Guantanamo Bay Detainees ‘Just After 9/11’

Hunter Lovell
June 28, 2018 12:38 PM

Congressional Democratic candidate Scott Wallace financed legal representation for several Guantanamo Bay detainees "just after 9/11," according to an executive at the group Wallace supported.

Mattis Sends Guantanamo Policy Recommendation to White House

Paul Crookston
May 2, 2018 3:15 PM

Secretary of Defense James Mattis provided the White House this week with a new policy regarding the transfer of detainees to the detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Trump Orders Guantanamo Detention Center to Stay Open

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing a memorandum "Increasing Access to High-Quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education" in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

Reuters
January 31, 2018 6:46 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order on Tuesday to keep open the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay after his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, tried unsuccessfully to close the prison that has drawn international condemnation.

Trudeau: ISIS Fighters Returning Home to Canada ‘Can Be an Extraordinarily Powerful Voice for Preventing Radicalization’

Aaron Kliegman
December 22, 2017 10:57 AM

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a recent interview that Islamic State fighters who return home to Canada can be rehabilitated and serve as "an extraordinarily powerful voice for preventing radicalization in future generations."

Mattis Makes Unannounced Visit to Guantanamo, First Pentagon Chief to Go There Since 2002

Jack Heretik
December 21, 2017 3:11 PM

Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Thursday gave a pep talk to American troops at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, marking the first time a Pentagon chief visited there since Donald Rumsfeld in 2002.