The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American captured by the Taliban nearly three years ago, have made an emotional appeal for the Obama administration to make a deal with the insurgents to release him in exchange for Afghan prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap

The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American captured by the Taliban nearly three years ago, have made an emotional appeal for the Obama administration to make a deal with the insurgents to release him in exchange for Afghan prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks have appeared before a US military tribunal at Guantanamo to be charged.

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VIDEO: Court hearing for key 9/11 suspects

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others go before a judge at Guantanamo Bay today. It could be a routine military commission hearing or a legal and political free-for-all.

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Accused 9/11 mastermind to be arraigned

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of planning the 9/11 attacks on the United States, is set to be formally charged at Guantanamo Bay.

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Key ’9/11 plotter’ due in court

When the biggest terrorism trial in U.S. history resumes this weekend at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheik Mohammed will retake his place at the defense table, the alpha dog among the five defendants accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Read full article > >

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Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, lead prosecutor in 9/11 case, in fight of his career

President Obama issued an order Tuesday night laying out broad new waivers that allow U.S. law enforcement agencies to retain custody of al-Qaeda terrorism suspects rather than turn them over to the military. Read full article > >

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Obama orders waivers to new rules on detaining terrorism suspects

KABUL — A Toyota Corolla full of former Taliban officials and armed guards stopped in front of Abdul Salam Zaeef’s home in western Kabul this month, awaiting the man who helped direct the Taliban from Pakistan before his capture and detention at Guantanamo Bay. Read full article > >

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Former Taliban officials find new role

The Obama administration, as part of an accelerated push toward an endgame in Afghanistan, last month reached a tentative accord with Taliban negotiators that would have included the transfer of five Afghans from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Taliban’s public renunciation of international terrorism. Read full article > >

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U.S. deal with Taliban breaks down

Robert McCaw, 29, Government Affairs Coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is urging President Obama to veto the National Defense Authorization Act , whose provisions would allow prosecutors to circumvent the civilian legal system for those suspected of aiding terrorists. McCaw is not alone. “The bill contains a sweeping worldwide ‘indefinite detention’ provision…to indefinitely detain without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up in the United States,” says Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU’s Washington legislative office. “ We encourage the president to seriously consider what it will mean for America, for the first time since the McCarthy era, to enshrine indefinite detention without charge or trial right into the statute books.” The New York Times editorial page also has stood up against the bill. Editor Andrew Rosenthal blogged while Congress was debating the bill, “When President Obama came into office in 2009 he promised to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and end the extra-judicial system that his predecessor had created to imprison terrorist suspects without trial, often without even filing charges. He has broken that promise.” Returning to the subject last week, after Congress approved the act, the editorial noted “There is no doubt this bill will make it harder to fight terrorism and do more harm to the country’s international reputation.”

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An Assault on America, From America’s Lawmakers

The White House Thursday threatened to veto the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act because of a series of provisions within the bill that mandate military custody for some terrorism suspects and prevent the administration from transferring detainees out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “Any bill that challenges or constrains the President’s critical authorities to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists, and protect the Nation would prompt the President’s senior advisers to recommend a veto,” the White House said in a statement. Read full article > >

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Veto threatened over detention provisions

Lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say authorities at the military base have begun reading privileged attorney-client communication — in a sharp break with past practice. Legal mail is the principal means of communication between detainees charged in military commissions and their military defense attorneys, who are based in the Washington area. Read full article > >

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Guantanamo authorities reading attorney-client mail, lawyers say

A senior Pentagon official Wednesday referred the first death penalty case under President Obama for trial by military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was charged in April by military prosecutors with murder, terrorism and other violations of the laws of war for his role in the October 2000 al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Read full article > >

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Death penalty case set for USS Cole defendant

D ick Cheney ’s best-selling memoir, “ In My Time ,” has rekindled verbal jousting over the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay and waterboarding — and with it the intense rancor seen whenever people debate those matters. The former vice president’s book — with its steadfast, no-apologies defense of invading Iraq to destroy all those weapons of mass destruction, his sharp criticisms of other top George W. Bush administration officials, and his reminders of the many Democrats who supported the war at the time — has doubtless ratcheted up the acrimony. Read full article > >

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An addendum, if you will, to the Cheney book

KABUL — Haji Shahzada never leaves home without a neatly folded scrap of paper that is the closest thing to an apology the United States offered after keeping him locked up in Guantanamo Bay for more than two years. “This individual has been determined to pose no threat to the United States Armed Forces or its interests in Afghanistan,” reads the April 2005 release document, which includes a squiggle of a signature and the initials of a sergeant first class. “This certificate has no bearing on any future misconduct.” Read full article > >

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For some former Guantanamo detainees, present bleaker than past