MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry : “I also appreciate that the hunger strikers are not trying to die. They’re trying to generate autonomy in the context of something that strips their humanity-something we certainly know about from the experience of American slavery.”
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to criticize President Obama’s statements about Guantanamo Bay. “I’m offended by the moralizing,” King said. “The fact is, whether you agree or disagree with Guantanamo, many experts believe that
In his “drone speech” Thursday, President Barack Obama referred to the oft-cited argument that the U.S. should close the Guantánamo Bay terror detention facility (GTMO) because it stirs anti-American opinion: “GTMO has become a symbol around the world for an
President Barack Obama called on Congress to take action, so Guantamo terrorist detainees can be transferred to the United States at a designated detention site in the country, where military trials and commissions can take place. “There is no justification beyond
Thursday morning on Chris Jansing’s MSNBC show, Politico Senior Reporter Lois Romano referred to Guantanamo Bay as a “really bad political tar baby” for President Obama: JANSING: Lois, let me start with Guantanamo Bay. Everybody knows [Obama] made this campaign
Requests revealed on May 21 show the Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintenance and upkeep of Guantanamo prison. According to Fox News, this figure includes “$200 million for military construction work that could stretch over a decade.” The request
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/21: Threats from Anonymous shut down Gitmo’s Wi-Fi, teens using Facebook less, social media is front line during disasters, Twitter toilet prank lands student in trouble, Teen Mom 2 star
Whenever Andrew Breitbart saw that somebody was being unfairly maligned by the institutional Left, he became that person’s stalwart defender. Sarah Palin, perhaps more than any other person in recent history, endured the full weight of what Breitbart called the
To say that Dave Perry, the editor of the Aurora Sentinel doesn’t like the NRA would be a colossal understatement. He wrote in a recent oped that they are the real terrorists in America, and the “guilty monsters” should be
The Obama administration has placed Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev in federal custody with plans to give him a civilian criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. That’s what the Constitution requires, though some will undoubtedly question that decision.
In reaction to the reported hunger strikes in the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the President still holds the position that the prison should be closed. Carney blamed Congress for slowing things
Twenty-four of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 inmates are on a hunger strike to protest President Barack Obama’s broken promise to close the detention facility. “They had great optimism that Guantanamo would be closed. They were devastated apparently…when the president backed off,
AP: Osama bin Laden’s spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by the United States, officials said Thursday. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is expected to be in U.S. federal court in New York on Friday in an initial hearing to face terror
The State Department’s special envoy assigned to work toward closure of Guantanamo Bay has been reassigned and will not be replaced. In other words, the office focused on closing Guantanamo Bay is now closed–a sure sign that the Obama administration
On Wednesday, President Obama signed the Defense Bill that had barred him from transferring GITMO inmates to their home countries or to the United States. Yet in so doing, he added a signing statement that basically says he claims the
The Defense Bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday is being touted as sending “a clear signal to President Obama to move quickly to get U.S. combat troops out of Afghanistan.” But it also sends another clear message to the
From Fox News Insider: Last night, the Senate voted 54 to 41 to block the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States. This comes one day after a report identified facilities in the U.S. that are believed to
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has commissioned a report showing that the transfer of Guantanamo Bay inmates to U.S. prisons is a “viable option.” According to reports uncovered on Wednesday, Feinstein has been looking for prisons which are suitable to hold
Safely re-elected and with the media in his back pocket, it looks as though Obama’s preparing to bring terrorists to American shores. Via The Mighty Michelle Malkin: If you thought President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had given up
The 2012 election is closing quickly. Across the country, and especially in swing states like Ohio, Virginia, and Florida, political advertisements are clamoring for our attention. Two debates in, we are all familiar with the issues at stake in this
One of Obama’s explicit election promises in 2008 was that he would close America’s prison at Guantanamo Bay. In his appearance on Jon Stewart’s show Thursday night, now-President Obama announced this was a goal for his second term. Commenting on
MSNBC Host Alex Wagoner shared with her audience that the President was under considerable pressure from Democrats not to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay during his first term. Panelist Melissa Harris-Perry suggested that now President Obama could suggest
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks tells a Guantanamo courtroom that America has killed more people than the 9/11 hijackers.
The U.S. has resumed 9/11 pre-trail Gitmo hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. The purpose of the pre-trail hearings is to “resolve outstanding issues” before the actual trials begin some time
Beverly Perlson of “Band of Mothers” addresses the latest controversy over the Obama Justice Department bypassing congress and purchasing an Illinois state prison for potentially housing the Gitmo detainees.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, President Obama announced today that if the Navy SEALs had captured Osama Bin Laden alive, the administration would have signed off on a prosecution in federal court. “We worked through the legal and political
News is breaking that the Obama administration is circumventing Congress and purchasing a prison facility in Illinois in which to house detainees once Gitmo is shut down. The facility, Thomson Prison, is being purchased for “at least $165 million” and
Anyone who thinks the Obama administration won’t release the Blind Sheik needs to look at what happened early Saturday morning and then think again. Under cover of darkness and without prior announcement convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr was quietly shipped
Documents show that the upcoming release or transfer of 55 inmates from Gitmo includes the transfer of a detainee who was a personal body guard for Osama bin Laden. Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris was “identified as a bodyguard for
President Barack Obama is about to release or transfer 55 Gitmo prisoners, despite reports that the Libyan believed to be behind the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a former Guantanamo inmate transferred to Libyan custody. The large percentage of those scheduled
There have been reports that a radical left-wing organization is responsible for helping to free a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay named Abu Sufian bin Qumu. Bin Qumu has been cited by multiple sources at Fox News as at least
The Daily Mail: A former al-Qaeda terrorist released from Guantanamo Bay is believed to be the leader of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the US Ambassador, it was revealed on Wednesday.
Court proceedings against accused Ft. Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan were halted by an order issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. The order came as Col. Gregory Gross, the judge presiding over Hasan’s court-martial,
Judicial Watch reports that Hezbollah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq, who tortured and killed 5 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and was detained by U.S. forces in early 2007, will be freed by an Iraqi court–the inevitable, and predictable, result of an Obama
Leftists who hate Israel can rejoice; their efforts at securing the release of a Gitmo detainee and their subsequent lionizing of him allowed him to murder five Israelis in the bombing Wednesday in Burgas, Bulgarian. The bomber has been identified
The U.S. Military Judge presiding over the trial of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants has suspended hearings at Guantanamo Bay “to avoid a conflict with the Muslim holy period of Ramadan.” The judge, Army Col. James Pohl,
The BIGS have spent a lot of time on “The Vetting” of Barack Obama, doing the job the mainstream media failed to do four years ago. I confess that at first I was underwhelmed by the revelations. However, as time
On the Tom Joyner Show, General Powell reveals his close relationship with President Obama and some questionable advice he gave the President.
According to Al Jazeera, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were “tortured” with Sesame Street. Really. Prisoners reported to Al Jazeera that they had been forced to wear headphones playing music from Sesame Street on a continuous loop for days on end.
