News Source: Truthout
| about 1 month ago
Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t Report President Barack Obama signed a Defense Department spending bill into law Wednesday, which includes a provision that will change the way military commissions are structured. Human rights organizations and legal...
News Source: National Public Radio
| about 1 month ago
Swift, now a lawyer in Seattle, is traveling in Iraq and responded by e-mail to NPR's questions about detainee trials on U.S. soil and the state of military commissions. On the perceived dangers of trying terrorism suspects on U.S. soil: Anyone...
News Source: National Public Radio
| about 1 month ago
President Obama's pledge to close the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of his first year in office navigated one roadblock last week, when Congress agreed to allow the transfer of prisoners onto U.S. soil to face trial. But the...
News Source: The Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Obama did not mention Guantanamo during a short White House ceremony in which he signed the defense bill. More than 220 detainees remain at Guantanamo as the Obama administration decides how to prosecute some in U.S. courts and turns over others to...