WASHINGTON - Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released by several American and European newspapers. The military detainee assessments were made public Sunday night by U.S. and European newspapers after the WikiLeaks website obtained the files. The records contain details of the more than 700 detainee interrogations and evidence the U.S. had collected against these suspected terrorists, according to the media outlets.
WASHINGTON -- Despite fierce opposition in Congress, the White House insisted Friday it has not ruled out releasing Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States. But with narrowing options, the administration has begun shipping newly cleared inmates abroad to regain momentum in its effort to close the Cuba-based prison camp. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration has not abandoned the possibility of releasing detainees in the U.S., but he added that national-security considerations would govern any moves.
There is substantial risk that detainees at Guantanamo, upon release, would set out to kill Americans or other innocent civilians around the world. White House Spokesman Jay Carney on February 17, 2011: "The President remains committed to closing Guantanamo."
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Four Guantanamo detainees from arid, predominantly Muslim western China were transferred to a proper British colony Thursday, marking an unexpected new chapter in their odyssey. Freed after being locked up seven years, the four men were given ties during their flight to the island and their lawyers gave quick lessons in how to knot them. They kept a low profile after landing and declined to talk with journalists.
Under recent Supreme Court decisions, and the Military Commissions Act passed by Congress in 2006, detainees have a right to judicial review both of their classification as enemy combatants and of any criminal sentence passed against them. [...] despite their illegitimate methods of warfare, the Guantanamo detainees have received more due process rights than even soldiers of sovereign states merit under the Geneva Conventions. The detainee can be held only if the board concludes that he is an enemy combatant by a preponderance of the evidence, and this decision is subject to review by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
INSIDE: Trials, prison 3A WASHINGTON - In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
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