“Guantanamo Bay” on The Daily Caller

Senate Republicans are pressing the Obama administration for documents that outline procedures used in releasing terrorism-suspect detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, information the Justice Department and State Department have previously withheld. (more)

Going back to the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama was reluctant to embrace the use of the signing statement as a show of executive authority as former President George W. Bush did in some circumstances as needed. (more)

Bobby Schilling, an incoming Tea Party-backed member of Congress from Illinois, is backing opposition to a just-passed defense authorization bill, warning it could allow suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into the United States for trial. (more)

A majority of Americans are in favor of military tribunals for the terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Naval Base, according to a new survey. (more)

“Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?” – Julian Assange, 2010 (more)

Incensed over President Obama’s tax compromise, House Democratic leaders are showing signs of abandoning the administration and going their own way on critical issues such as national security. (more)

On Monday, President Obama made a statement claiming that a structure for an agreement was made with the GOP to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans for at least another two years. Unemployment benefits and other such goodies were to be exchanged for doing so. Nevertheless, I was more than stunned to see this president agree to such terms. I knew that the left would be irate and it turns out they are. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that Congress would be setting a dangerous precedent if it prohibited the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States where they could stand trial. (more)

Congress on Wednesday signaled it won’t close the prison at Guantanamo Bay or allow any of its suspected terrorist detainees to be transferred to the U.S., dealing what is likely the final blow to President Obama’s campaign pledge to shutter the facility in Cuba. (more)

A de-classified summary of a report about detainees formerly held at Guantanamo Bay, written by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, reported that of the 66 former Guantanamo detainees transferred since President Obama took office, “2 are confirmed and 3 are suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities.” (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder should be preparing his resume. He ought to be joining the exodus of congressional lame ducks who have been shown the door by incensed voters. (more)

One headache President Obama has not had to deal with is anti-draft demonstrations. (more)

Unlike some conservatives, I never had a problem with President Obama’s trips to India and Indonesia. Both countries, after all, are rising democracies and growing economic powers. And both countries have large Muslim populations. Indonesia, in fact, has the world’s largest Muslim population, with more than 200 million Muslims. (more)

The midterm elections are about many, many things. The elections have been nationalized by supporters of the Tea Party movement. Establishment Republicans have largely survived primary challenges, only to realize the electorate isn’t embracing them as reasonable voices. Voters are sending a different message entirely: the Democratic establishment — led by President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — is perceived as overreaching, grasping and power-obsessed. It’s a familiar meme; Republicans worth their political salt found this out in both the 2006 and the 2008 elections. (more)

A young Canadian terrorism suspect accepted a plea deal Monday that will make him eligible to leave Guantanamo Bay prison in a year, sparing the Obama administration the spectacle of putting the first child soldier on trial for war crimes in modern times. (more)

An Islamist organization devoted to supporting Guantanamo Bay detainees and other prisoners held on charges of terrorism has posted three poems that it said it received from John Walker Lindh. An American citizen, Lindh was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after agreeing to a plea bargain. (more)

Detainees’ diets at Guantanamo Bay have been a controversial issue for some time and now the U.S. prison is said to be rationing ice cream. (more)

The Family Research Council boasted an all-star conservative lineup Friday morning at its 2010 Value Voters Summit in Washington with big-name potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. (more)

Since assuming office, President Obama has garnered his fair share of high-profile critics. But few have been as omnipresent and implacable as John Bolton. From his near constant appearances on Fox News and HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” to his steady stream of op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News, the 61-year-old former Ambassador to the United Nations and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control under President George W. Bush has been relentless in his critiques of President Obama’s agenda, especially in the realm of foreign policy. (more)

After an initial grace period in which most Americans were willing to give a new president the benefit of the doubt, what this nation has steadily watched is a man and an administration almost exclusively governing against the will of the people.  While the crux of his predecessors low approval ratings were in fighting an ‘unpopular war’, President Obama is watching his own approval rating plunge due to an unpopular, well, everything else.  His record has been so blatantly in contrast to the will of this nation, that it could very nearly be defined as anti-American. (more)