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• No Money To Move Detainees From Guantanamo Bay

  
  Dreadnaught — Authority: 109
  From the WSJ Law Blog,A little less than a year ago, when President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, it seemed to many like a realistic goal.But the wind-down has been anything but smooth. Members of Congress have objected to efforts to bring the detainees to the U.S., judges ...
  4 days ago

• Gitmo Not Likely to Close Till 2011 at the Earliest

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  We’d already set aside the January 2010 deadline for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay that President Obama set on his first day in office. But now the administration is acknowledging that it probably won’t close the prison down until 2011 — at the earliest. While funding is the most immediate ...
  5 days ago

• Closing GTMO

  
  Neptunus Lex — Authority: 568
  Looks like it’s going to have to wait : Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison. As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close ...
  5 days ago

• MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 141
  Thursday, December 10, 2009 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUBJECT:  Directing Certain Actions with Respect to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including by article II, section 2, ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. Transfers 12 Detainees Out of Gitmo

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The Department of Justice this morning announced that twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. Here’s the announcement, with the names of the detainees, which had previously been withheld : As directed by the ...
  6 days ago

• Guantanamo Bay Detainees To Move To Illinois

  
  Dreadnaught — Authority: 109
  The White House sent members of the Illinois congressional delegation amemo covering a series of questions they generated in the wake of President Obama’s order for the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for a prison to house detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in ...
  1 week ago

• Repatriation of Yemeni Detainees a Significant Step Toward Closing Gitmo

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  The news today that the Obama administration has arranged for the repatriation of six Yemeni detainees from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay suggests a breakthrough in what’s long been a major obstacle to closing the notorious U.S. prison. The Washington Post reports that the transfer may be just the ...
  1 week ago

• White House Peddles Misinformation on Gitmo

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Here’s a nice catch by Dafna Linzer at ProPublica. At yesterday’s press conference, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs made two statements about the Obama administration’s connection to the more than 200 Guantanamo detainees left at the prison camp. First, Gibbs told reporters that more transfers of ...
  1 week ago

• Will Prisoners’ Move to Thompson Expand Their Legal Rights?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Among the objections from Congressional Republicans to transferring Guantanamo detainees from Cuba to Illinois is the fear that the prisoners will suddenly have many more rights by virtue of being on U.S. soil. But is that true? Actually, it’s not clear, Scott Silliman, a professor at Duke University Law School ...
  1 week ago

• Introducing TWI’s Gitmo Habeas Scoreboard

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Since the Supreme Court ruled last year that detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo have the right to habeas corpus — that is, the right to challenge their detention in court — hundreds of detainees have taken advantage, filing petitions in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Today, The ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Government Wins Gitmo Habeas Case; Score Is 31-9 in Favor of Detainees

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  In a rare win for the government in a Guantanamo Bay detainee case, a federal judge ruled Monday that it can continue to hold a 28-year-old Yemeni at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Musa’ab Al-Madhwani has been imprisoned at Guantanamo since October 2002. The government claims he was a member ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Administration to Announce Gitmo Detainees’ Move to Illinois Tuesday

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Jake Tapper at ABC News reports that the Obama administration will announce on Tuesday that at least some Guantanamo Bay detainees are headed to the federal prison in Thomson, Ill. Just how many of the inmates at Thomson will come from the Guantanamo Bay prison is unclear, though. As I’ve noted before, prominent ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Rejects Key Torture Case

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The Supreme Court today issued a blow to victims of abuse by U.S. officials during the “war on terror.” The high court this morning refused to review a federal appeals court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit by four British citizens who claimed they were wrongly arrested and mistreated at the U.S. prison at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Draft Memo Reveals Plans to Move Gitmo Detainees to Thomson, Ill.

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Conservative bloggers were abuzz over the weekend over a leaked memo that appeared to show President Obama has decided to send all Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois “as expeditiously as possible.” In fact, it turned out that the memo was a draft from the Justice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gitmo Detainee Is Returned to Kuwait

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The United States today released Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah to his native Kuwait after holding him for nearly eight years at Guantanamo Bay. According to the Department of Justice , Al Rabiah had been cleared for transfer by the government’s Guantanamo Review Task Force. On Sept. 17, a federal court also ruled he ...
  2 weeks ago

• 988 miles, 96 hours, 5 states, 4 kids, 1 pick up truck = Fun!

  
  Family In Shape — Authority: 106
  Taking the subway into New York City was the most fun. We went to see In The Heights - a fantastic, lively musical. Go see it if you get a chance. This is really the city that never sleeps, its...
  3 weeks ago

• Four Gitmo Detainees Transferred to Europe

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The Department of Justice announced today that four more detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred: one to Hungary , one to France , and two to Italy . The detainee headed for Hungary is identified only as being “from the West Bank.” The Justice Department said that the government of Hungary wanted ...
  3 weeks ago

• Former Gitmo Detainees Acquitted in Algeria

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Two Algerians held for seven years without charge or trial at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay l have been acquitted after after a trial back home in Algeria, their defense lawyer said yesterday . Faghoul Abdelli and Mohamed Terari were arrested in Afghanistan by Pakistani police following the Sept. 11, ...
  5 weeks ago

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