“Guantanamo Bay” on The Daily Caller

In the wake of the revelation that the Department of Defense has spent $750,000 on a soccer field for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp pressed Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on his knowledge of the expenditure at a Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House Armed Services Committee. (more)

Nearly 200 demonstrators gathered at Lafayette Park on Wednesday, within earshot of the White House, to protest the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba’s tenth anniversary of operation. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder’s effort to give terrorists civilian trials was thrown under the 2012 campaign bus last week, when his boss, President Barack Obama, ditched the attorney general’s efforts to win control of jihadis who are captured overseas and also released a terrorist who murdered four captured Americans soldiers. (more)

Americans for Tax Reform founder and president Grover Norquist has made some enemies over the years for his conservative politics, but does he deserve to be called a terrorist? (more)

Republicans have a political opportunity to promote legislation that would establish Guantanamo Bay prison as the default detention facility for jihadis following the White House’s controversial decision to transfer a Somali jihadi from U.S. military custody to a civil court in the United States. (more)

Not a single high-value detainee has been sent to the terrorist detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) since Barack Obama became president, but Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Inhofe hopes to change that with legislation. (more)

The Washington Post’s Outlook section just gave ex-jihadi Moazzem Begg a half-page this Sunday to lament the U.S. war on jihadis, and Begg repaid the Post by showcasing a photoshopped image of a dead President Barack Obama on his advocacy website. (more)

CIA Director Leon Panetta stomped on the White House’s political script when he told Tuesday night’s broadcast of NBC Nightly News that the waterboarding of jihadi detainees contributed information that led to the location and killing of Osama bin Laden. (more)

Former George W. Bush administration intelligence and national security officials tell The Daily Caller that the intelligence President Barack Obama acted on when authorizing the mission to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was likely obtained during enhanced interrogations and/or at the Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) detention facilities. (more)

The Daily Caller’s Deputy Editor Jamie Weinstein talks Gitmo Wikileaks, gas prices and much more on RT’s “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann” on April 27. (more)

One big victory by Republicans in 11th hour negotiations to avert government shutdown was a policy rider banning President Obama from closing Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirms. (more)

President Obama’s supporters have attacked his decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed via the military commission process. Some of these criticisms have merit and are worthy of debate. But the argument that military commissions won’t be legitimate because members of the Armed Forces will serve as the judge and jury is patronizing, insulting, and demonstrably false. (more)

WASHINGTON – President Obama reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, permitting a resumption of military trials under rules he said provide adequate rights for defendants but implicitly admitting the failure for now of his pledge to close the prison camp. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant. (more)

The Obama administration has all but officially abandoned a proposal to turn a vacant Illinois state prison into a facility for suspected terrorists now held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (more)

Berkeley, Calif., home to the hippie movement of the 1960s, is considering rolling out the welcome mat to freed Guantanamo Bay detainees. (more)

London (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday a two-day hearing on whether to extradite him to Sweden is finally lifting the lid on sexual misconduct allegations he says are false and have blighted his reputation for months. (more)

Suspected Taliban leader Awal Gul died at Guantanamo Bay after exercising on an elliptical machine Tuesday night. (more)

A group of 173 human rights activists, each wearing an orange jumpsuit and a black hood and representing each of the remaining 173 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rallied in front of the White House on Tuesday to mark the ninth anniversary of the detention center’s opening and to protest the Obama administration’s failure to close it. (more)