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A US defence department review of conditions at Guantanamo Bay detention camp has called for an easing of the isolation of prisoners there. The Pentagon report says inmates should be allowed more social interaction and opportunities for recreation. It comes as new US Attorney General Eric Holder pays his first visit to the controversial facility in Cuba. Last month, President Barack Obama ordered the Guantanamo Bay camp to be closed within one year. About 250 prisoners are still held there, nearly all without charge. Among them was a UK inmate, who returned from the camp to Britain earlier on Monday....

As we reported last week, the Obama administration transferred Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed to British custody Sunday night. All terrorism-related charges against Mohamed were dropped in 2007. Many military families called the White House about this Friday night, upset at the news. Here's the official release (note that it comes from the Department of Justice, rather than from the Pentagon): "UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "UNITED STATES TRANSFERS BINYAM MOHAMMED TO UNITED KINGDOM "WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced the transfer to the United Kingdom of Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian national and former resident of...

Binyam Mohamed, who was questioned by British police Monday after being released from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, has been freed and faces no further action, the Metropolitan Police said. "He's now been released full stop, that's the end of it," a police spokesman told AFP. His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith also confirmed he had been freed. Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born former British resident, was the first Guantanamo prisoner to be transferred under US President Barack Obama.

Released from Gitmo and sent to his native country,terrorist is found not guilty and freed by Kuweiti judge. Just a few months later same man drove a truck packed with explosives onto an Iraqi army base outside Mosul, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and himself. Read on

Over the last month I have read on numerous message boards how Obama will take us down the same road as the Labour Party did with the UK. Unfortunately it appears that these worries are becoming a reality.

Holder to Gitmo, Rights Groups Uneasy Attorney General Goes to Guantanamo, Human Rights Groups Question Trip's Intent By ARIANE de VOGUEFeb. 23, 2009 As Attorney General Holder travels to Cuba today as apart of a review of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, some civil libertarians and human rights groups have been feeling uneasy that they are receiving mixed signals regarding President Obama's commitment to dramatically alter terrorism policies of the Bush administration. Although most of the groups were initially thrilled with the administration's promise to close the detention center, lately they have been worried that President Obama will not...

Last evening’s Fox News Watch included an homage to Sam Donaldson on the occasion of his retirement. Asked if there were reporters currently on the scene like Donaldson, panelist Jane Hall responded: “we don’t see a lot of them. Some people think Jake Tapper has been pretty aggressive.” Tapper, ABC’s chief White House correspondent, has given recent evidence that he is among that rare breed of MSMer willing to report inconvenient facts about the Obama administration. As Jennifer Rubin at Commentary’s Contentions blog has observed, it looks like Tapper is the only MSM outlet to have reported this story: "Brian...

Two weeks ago, I was among a small group of USS Cole and 9/11 victims’ families who met with President Obama at the White House. Despite President Obama’s assurances that the safety and security of the American people is his number one priority, I left the meeting with little confidence that the President appreciates the grave consequences of shutting down Guantanamo or the complex problems associated with adjudicating detainee cases in the federal court system. Indeed, he told us that he is “not at all concerned” about the security issues of bringing the detainees to the U.S. His rationale for...

It's from our own military which will probably discredit it with the loons on the left but a report requested by President Obama about conditions at Guantanamo prison shows that they meet the requirements set down by the Geneva convention - just as President Bush requested: Defense attorneys for the detainees have complained bitterly about the isolation of some prisoners. They allege that over several years, it has led to mental problems for some detainees. The lawyers also have criticized the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike. About 40 prisoners are now on hunger strike, according to Pentagon officials. Walsh...

Gitmo detainees treated humanely, U.S. report says Story Highlights Defense Department advises that violent detainees be allowed to pray, have rec time Attorney general announces task force on what to do with detainees at Gitmo DoD point man on counterterrorism will head task force, advise senior review board From Barbara StarrCNN Pentagon Correspondent WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new Defense Department report concludes that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, treats detainees humanely, according to a department official with knowledge of the report. Attorney General Eric Holder, shown earlier this week, has formed a detainee review task force. 1...

ABC News has learned that the Obama administration will begin the process of releasing a prisoner from the Detainee Center at Guantanamo Bay next week, perhaps as early as Monday. Binyam Mohamed, a 30-year-old Ethiopian and legal resident of the UK, will be transferred into British custody, government officials told ABC News. The British will fly Mohamed back to England. The British government has signaled it intends to subject Mohamed to surveillance, but he is not expected to be arrested. British authorities have long expressed concern that any evidence against Mohamed would be inadmissible because of alleged torture against him...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year. The report recommended some changes, including an increase in group recreation for some of the camp's more dangerous or less compliant prisoners, according to a government official familiar with the study. The report also suggested allowing those prisoners to gather in groups of three or more, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not...

February 20, 2009 Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/February/09-ag-148.html Attorney General Appoints Executive Director to Lead New Task Force on Review of Guantanamo Bay Detainees WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the appointment of an Executive Director to lead a new interagency task force charged with continued implementation of the President’s Jan. 22 Executive Order calling for an immediate review of the status of individuals currently detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The Executive Director, Matthew G. Olsen, will lead the Guantanamo Detainee Review Task Force, which is responsible for assembling and examining relevant information and...

Friday, February 20, 2009 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalinkObama’s Government Report: Guantanamo is Humane and Abides by Geneva Conventions President Obama in one of his first actions in office ordered the closure of the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. He also ordered an in-depth study of the prison camps to decipher whether the terrorists and alleged terrorists at Gitmo are properly treated and that U.S. troops are abiding by the Geneva Conventions. The report, part of which was leaked today, shows that Gitmo “complies with the humanitarian requirements of the Geneva conventions” and that the prisoners are treated with dignity. A Pentagon...

Inhofe response to Attorney General Holder to visit Gitmo on Monday "Many of those in favor of closing Gitmo have never seen it first-hand, so I was glad today to hear that Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit Gitmo next Monday. I remain optimistic that after the Obama Administration considers the facts on the ground they too will appreciate the grave national security threat to the United States if Gitmo were to be shut down. I firmly believe that transferring terrorists to American soil should be completely out of the question and I will continue working with my colleagues...

Debra Burlingame has previously reported President Obama smiled and admitted that he had not visited Guantanamo (to 40 family members of the victims of the USS Cole and September 11 attacks during his February 6, 2009 White House meeting with them). Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced he will visit Gitmo: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told reporters today that he would travel Monday to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of his effort to determine how to handle the 245 remaining terrorism suspects detained there. "We need to have our feet on the ground...

President Barack Obama has often said that America should comply with the "rule of law." While it would be a violation of federal law to allow the 17 Uighurs at Guantanamo released into the United States, that is what lawyers and advocates are asking him to do in the wake of yesterday's court decision, according to the Los Angeles Times: The U.S. government may continue holding a group of 17 Chinese Muslims instead of releasing them in the United States, even though they are no longer considered dangerous, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in reversing an earlier decision. ......

A federal appeals court yesterday blocked the transfer to the United States of a small band of Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The decision by a three-judge panel reversed a lower court ruling that ordered the government to release the 17 Uighurs and resettle them with Uighur families in the Washington region. The government no longer considers the Uighurs to be enemy combatants and has been trying to find nations willing to take them in. U.S. authorities do not want to send the men home to China, where they are considered terrorists and...

AG Holder headed to Guantanamo Bay to see facility 5 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder is headed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, next week to examine the detention facility.President Barack Obama has given Holder the job of leading the administration's effort to shut down the site within a year.Holder has told reporters he will travel on Monday to the military base to see things firsthand. He said he wants to talk to officials there about detention and interrogation techniques.

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States. The men are Turkic Muslims known as Uighurs. They have been cleared for release from Guantanamo, but the United States will not send them home to China for fear they will be tortured. So they remain in prison while the U.S. figures out what to do with them.