Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

The cost of Guantanamo

2013-05-05 05:00:00

The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted...

Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell

2013-05-04 16:42:00

As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...

Senate expected to back Cardin human rights measure despite White House concerns

2012-12-05 17:55:00

— Legislation by Sen. Ben Cardin to pressure Russia on human rights abuses is expected to win approval in Congress Thursday despite concerns that it will hurt already tenuous U.S. relations with the Kremlin. The proposal — which requires the...

Bradley Manning testifies Quantico restrictions were 'absurd'

2012-11-29 20:59:17

On stand, Manning admits tying bedsheet into noose

2012-11-30 16:02:05

The shameful treatment of foreign children in U.S. custody

2012-12-20 10:26:03

The State Department revealed this month that the United States has detained more than 200 children at its military prison in Afghanistan. I represent one of them, a boy who left his parents' home in Karachi, Pakistan in July 2008, when he was 14, on a...

What about Obama's broken promises?

2012-10-11 04:30:00

The headline on Jules Witcover's recent op-ed ("Pressure is on Obama," Oct. 9) should have been "Obama committee member speaks out." Is he serious that the dog on the roof incident is still a topic for discussion? Mr. Witcover spends the first half of...

Obama for president

2012-11-02 09:30:00

Barack Obama has not been a perfect president. Millions are still suffering from a weak economy, vitally important issues like climate change and immigration remain all but unaddressed, and most disappointingly, the promise of a new politics to move us...

Obama's foreign policy reset has little to show for it

2012-10-28 05:00:00

Four years ago, a telegenic, charismatic senator from Illinois cobbled together a New Deal coalition of labor, environmentalists, progressives, African-Americans and young people to capture the presidency. It was an exciting time. America had elected its...

Debate revealed President Obama's weaknesses

2012-10-08 12:00:00

President Obama finally showed America, especially his base, his inability to grasp America's complex economic machine. When elected, everyone knew he lacked leadership experience, but we hoped he would learn quickly and hire seasoned advisors who...

Libya crisis the latest chapter in Obama's foreign policy follies

2012-10-04 00:00:00

We're now entering the fourth week of the "CSI: Benghazi" hostage crisis. That's how long an FBI forensic team has been trying to gain access in Libya to what the State Department still calls a crime scene -- the Obamaadministration's preferred term for...

Obama missteps facilitated Libyan attack

2012-09-24 04:30:00

After a week of President Barack Obama's typical lying fashion, his administration finally admitted that the terrorist assault on the American consulate in Benghazi and the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens was a preplanned operation by anti-...

Activists wearing orange jumpsuits mark the 100th day of prisoners' hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay during a protest in front of the White House in Washington

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. at a congressional hearing Wednesday, where he said the Obama administration was reconsidering a moratorium on transferring Yemeni prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to their homeland.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

File photo of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay

2013-05-04 00:00:00