Guantanamo Bay

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Biden hopes to close Gitmo, but where does he send the bad guys?

Jamie McIntyre · February 5, 2021 4:00 am

FILE - In this March 1, 2003 file picture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan.

Pentagon pauses plan to offer Guantanamo Bay detainees coronavirus vaccines

Daniel Chaitin and Jerry Dunleavy · January 30, 2021 7:51 pm

Two men detained at Guantanamo Bay are being transferred to an Algerian prison, the Defense Department announced (AP/Bill Gorman)

Guantanamo detainees could be given coronavirus vaccine beginning next week

Carly Roman · January 30, 2021 2:56 am

Justice delayed: 19 years later, coronavirus pushes back 9/11 trial — again

Jerry Dunleavy · September 11, 2020 10:30 am

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama is pushing to overcome obstacles to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, an elusive goal which has frustrated him since he took office. That is setting the White House on a collision course with Congress in its bid to loosen restrictions for moving out detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Appeals court says due process clause not applicable to Guantanamo Bay detainees

Anthony Leonardi and Jerry Dunleavy · August 29, 2020 4:24 pm

This April 17, 2013 video frame grab reviewed by the U.S. Military, barb wire surrounds the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Prison officials opened the prison to journalists, portraying the atmosphere as tense but under control at this detention center. (AP Photo/Suzette Laboy)

‘The public has forgotten’: 9/11 family members lament justice delayed at Guantanamo Bay

Jerry Dunleavy · February 1, 2020 4:38 pm

An American flag waves in the breeze behind razor-wire and fences within the compound of Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

‘They’ve all grown up’: Second CIA waterboarder testifies in 9/11 Guantanamo hearings

Jerry Dunleavy · February 1, 2020 4:19 pm

President Obama's quandary about the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is that to satisfy the liberals he has to actually close it. Talking about it isn't enough anymore. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

Guantanamo Bay interrogator accuses Obama CIA chief John Brennan of throwing him ‘under the bus’

Jerry Dunleavy · January 30, 2020 2:10 pm

Just last week, Congress complained about the process by which Guantanamo Bay detainees were transferred to other countries (Richard Sheinwald/Bloomberg News, File)

Senate ‘torture’ report front and center during 9/11 hearing at Guantanamo

Jerry Dunleavy · January 30, 2020 1:00 pm

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Adam Driver.

CIA interrogator says Amazon film The Report got waterboarding of accused terrorist wrong

Jerry Dunleavy · January 29, 2020 4:41 pm

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama is pushing to overcome obstacles to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, an elusive goal which has frustrated him since he took office. That is setting the White House on a collision course with Congress in its bid to loosen restrictions for moving out detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

In Guantanamo testimony, CIA waterboarder says he threatened to cut throat of 9/11 mastermind’s son

Jerry Dunleavy · January 28, 2020 5:10 pm

A courtoom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,center, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash,left, attending a pre-trial session Monday,Dec. 8, 2008, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba . Mohammed is the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

KSM vs. CIA: 9/11 mastermind’s lawyers will grill the man who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Jerry Dunleavy · January 27, 2020 6:31 pm