Administration officials say President Barack Obama will restart Bush-era military tribunals for a small number of Guantanamo detainees after adding some legal protections for the terror suspects.
Obama had suspended the tribunals within hours of taking office in January, ordering a review but stopping short of abandoning George W. Bush’s strategy of prosecuting terrorists. He had [...]
Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) questioned President Obama’s decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay Sunday, demanding to know how it made the country safer.
Obama has promised to close the prison that holds hundreds of suspected terrorists, though he has not decided where to house prisoners who will remain in U.S. custody.
“While President Obama has [...]
Republicans say the White House plan to close U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, “is a dangerous case of putting symbolism over security.”President Barack Obama needs to tell the public where the suspected terrorists will go after the facility is shuttered, Missouri Sen. Kit Bond said in the GOP radio address Saturday.
“The American people [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday reiterated the desire of Senate Democrats to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, dismissing any funding conflict with the House.
Reid (D-Nev.) downplayed the significance of Monday’s decision by House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) against including $80 million in a $94 billion supplemental spending bill to [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will seek passage in coming weeks of $94.2 billion in emergency money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other programs, including $2 billion more to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, outlining the legislation for reporters, also said the [...]
Republicans have lit a fire under the Democrats regarding the issue of what will be done with Guantanamo’s prisoners. They have turned up the heat so much that the Democrats will likely drop the verbiage to authorize the use of war funds to relocate the inmates from the pending $83.4 billion war funding bill. Senate [...]
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