GOP lawmakers decry Obama decision to move terror trials
Republican lawmakers Friday bitterly criticized President Barack Obama's decision to try accused terrorists in the United States and warned against moving detainees to South Carolina.
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The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantánamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.
Republican lawmakers Friday bitterly criticized President Barack Obama's decision to try accused terrorists in the United States and warned against moving detainees to South Carolina.
President Barack Obama's order to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison's closing for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House.
It's one year before South Carolinians elect a new governor and the possibility that the Charleston Brig could house Guantánamo detainees is already roiling the race.
The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror captives off this remote base "with 10 days notice,'' the prison camps commander said Tuesday.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he is worried lawmakers' opposition to bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to U.S. prisons could hurt the effort to close the detention center.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Sunday morning news programs that trying to close down the detention center at Guantánamo Bay has proved more complicated than anticipated.
Kansas Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts said Wednesday they were "confident" that terrorist detainees from Guantánamo would not be relocated to Fort Leavenworth.
With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the budget year beginning in October.
The U.S. government on Friday sent two Syrian men from the prison camps at Guantánamo to resettlement in Portugal after years as war on terror captives at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
Despite the determination of U.S. officials and the goodwill of some foreign nations, President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantánamo prison camps by January still has a long way to go.
A Guantánamo Bay captive is so fearful of returning to his homeland that he is fighting U.S. plans to send him there.
The Pentagon sent three Guantánamo detainees to Saudi Arabia on Friday -- among them the prison camps' longest-running hunger striker -- to cap a week of far-flung transfers that the Obama administration said signaled global cooperation in its effort to empty the detention centern southeast Cuba.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Wednesday that bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to the United States could pose a number of possible risks, even if the detainees were kept in maximum-security prisons.
No one is saying what the U.S. government will do next with its strategic base along the Windward Passage. But here are some suggestions that have surfaced in the past year.
These are days of uncertainty at Guantánamo Bay -- for the prisoners, contractors and sailors who will remain.
Republicans have ratcheted up the debate over releasing Guantánamo detainees onto U.S. soil. Their plan: Give governors and state lawmakers veto power over any prisoner transfers or releases.
The United States has asked Germany to accept some Guantánamo prisoners when the facility is closed, the Interior Ministry said Sunday, confirming German media reports.
The anxiety of locals who live near the brig at Charleston, S.C., one possible place Guantánamo detainees may be sent, is typical of opposition nationwide.
America's top attorney, Eric Holder, on Wednesday night described his task of emptying the prison camps at Guantánamo "indisputably the most daunting challenge I face as attorney general.''
The Obama administration hasn't picked -- or ruled out -- any lockups on U.S. soil where Guantánamo detainees may be sent.
Austria said Monday it would not take detainees from the Guantánamo Bay center despite a request by President Barack Obama for help from European nations during his first major international trip as leader.
In a prison camps first, the Obama administration Tuesday dispatched members of a detainee review team here to speak directly with 17 captives from China who were swept up in the war on terror and ultimately cleared of being enemies of America.
Some Chinese Muslim detainees long cleared for release from the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay could be released in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
The Obama administration created a diplomatic post in an effort to convince countries to accept Guantánamo detainees.