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11 Jan 2016, 1:23 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Alex McQuade
Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 8:16 am by Taylor Isaac
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough [official profile] told [Fox News report] Fox News Sunday that President Barack Obama [official profile] intends to fulfill his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before leaving office. [read post]
10 Jan 2016, 9:35 pm by Cody M. Poplin
Wilner, and Andy Worthington for a discussion on Guantanamo Bay: Year 14. [read post]
9 Jan 2016, 7:12 am by Cody M. Poplin
Ben reviewed the latest Guantanamo Bay exclusive from Rolling Stone, which he calls “very long and very uninteresting. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 1:28 pm by Cody M. Poplin
The Pentagon has transferred two long-cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees, Khalid al Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef, to the West African nation of Ghana, marking the first time that the United States has transferred a GTMO detainee to a sub-Saharan African country. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 8:35 am by Kasey Tuttle
Two Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released to Ghana, officials said [press release] Wednesday. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 12:53 pm by CJLF Staff
  Moreover, there are hundreds more in federal prisoners serving time for terrorist activities related to other terror groups, 100 of which are scheduled for release in the next five years, and there is a possibility that more terror suspects could be transferred to U.S. prisons from Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 5:52 pm
This runs from debates about the legal justifications of military humanitarian intervention, to Guantanamo Bay as a distinct juridical space, to the increasing “private” power Foreign Investment and Trade Treaties vis-a-vis public law, to the seeming jurisdictional immunity of “global value chains”, to whether rights should be re-conceptualized as governmental technologies, and to whether and how disciplinary characterizations should now shift from… [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 4:01 pm by Cody M. Poplin
Ben reviewed the latest Guantanamo Bay exclusive from Rolling Stone, which he calls “very long and very uninteresting. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 1:17 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
Southern Command, has pulled psychologists from a wide range of activities dealing with detainees at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 8:07 am by Benjamin Wittes
"Fifteen years of pain and suffering outside the rule of law—why can't we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay? [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 7:03 am by Kasey Tuttle
The first of 17 detainees are scheduled to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison next week, said a senior US official [CNN report] on Monday. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 12:12 pm by Cody M. Poplin
” Charles Levinson and David Rohde of Reuters report that over a number of years and a series of cases, the Pentagon has attempted to slow the transfer and release of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, throwing up repeated bureaucratic obstacles and refusing to “provide photographs, complete medical records and other basic documentation to foreign governments willing to take detainees. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 4:49 pm by Mark Jaycox
For example, assuming that a country's human rights record should relate to local law enforcement access to data, would the U.S. detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay or disclosures found in the recently declassified Torture Report be able to pass another country's human rights assessment? [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 12:24 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
Editor’s Note: Lawfare’s Headlines and Commentary will be at the beach next week. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 12:55 pm by Elina Saxena
Let’s begin today in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual televised news conference, discussing subjects ranging from Syria, Ukraine, Turkey, and Donald Trump. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 1:14 pm by Elina Saxena
In a rare appearance at the Pentagon today, President Barack Obama declared that U.S. coalition forces are making progress in the fight against the Islamic State. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 2:00 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
In what would appear to be the apex of recent tensions between Russia and Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu accused Russia of pursuing “ethnic cleansing” against the Turkmen and local Sunni Muslim population in Northern Syria as part of efforts to protect Russian interests in the region. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 7:23 am by The Law Office of Philip D. Cave
Getting him back was part of a complex exchange that involved five Taliban prisoners who were being held at Guantanamo Bay — a move that drew sharp criticism from GOP lawmakers. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 6:02 am by David Bernstein
In 2014, Congress passed and the president signed a law banning the president from using any Defense Department funds to release prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without giving Congress 30 days’ notice. [read post]