How did 5 alleged Al Qaeda members come together to form this statement, given that they are being held each in isolation at Gitmo? Are they allowed to meet and discuss various topics, including... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

The “reports” come in from all over the internet and the papers, day after day after day: Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail: Democrat Rahm Emanuel put his Chicago residency in the name of a charity to avoid property taxes… Phil Gremillion at The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette,...

It’s habeas corpus test time for Barack Obama. Does he recognize the validity of the ancient writ or not? A right-leaning court has sided with the years-long detention-without-charge of non-enemy non-combatants. 17 Uighurs, captured as part of George W. Bush’s dragnet, and later determin...

Following up on former Gitmo Prosecutor Darrel Vandeveld's complaints, the team Obama has charged with undoing Guantanamo are finding that case files on detainees are disorganized, haphazard and incomplete: President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects...

One of the heroes highlighted by John Kennedy's ghost writer in Profiles in Courage was Robert Taft . Just 17 months after V-E Day, Ohio Sen. Robert Taft , the leading Republican presidential contender, spoke out against the Nuremberg Tribunal that had sentenced to death 12 leading Nazis. Taft was i...

Maybe closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay isn’t so hard. It took President Obama less than 12 hours to take the first vital step of halting the military tribunals at the prison camp....

A handful of interesting and appalling developments out of Guantanamo in the last 24 hours absolutely reinforces the need for the incoming Obama administration to act quickly in shutting down Guantanamo and ending the Military Commissions proceedings against detainees, moving their cases into the fe...

Susan Crawford, the Bush administration official charged with overseeing overseeing the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay calls a spade a spade: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tor...

This is encouraging: President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office — and perhaps his first day — to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers. It's unlikely the detention facil...

The news out of Guantanamo yesterday was perplexing, with first reports saying that the five detainees--including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed--wanted to plead guilty, then the apparent withdrawal of those pleas when the issue of the competency of two of the men was raised. Here's how th...