This art show opened a couple of weeks ago but apparently the school got threatened over it.
The Daily Caller reports:
Gitmo Art Exhibit Closing After Snapchat Threat
An art exhibit featuring the works of Guantanamo Bay prisoners at John Jay College is shutting down Monday after a Snapchat message mentioned a threat against...
Who looks at proposal for something like this and thinks it’s a good idea?
The Washington Times reports:
John Jay College art exhibit features works by Guantanamo detainees
An exhibit at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City featuring various artworks by current and former Guantanamo Bay detainees has reportedly forced...
President Obama is slowly draining the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay before turning the White House keys over to Trump.
In the wee hours of the morning, it was announced that Oman accepted ten GITMO prisoners.
President Barack Obama transferred 15 Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United Arab Emirates, making it the largest transfer in his time in office.
He sent 12 Yemenis and three Afghans to the Middle East country, leaving only 61 prisoners in the Cuba base. Gitmo had 242 prisoners when Obama took office...
Having campaigned on closing Gitmo and on his first day in office signing an executive order to close it within the year, Obama has been steadily emptying the detention center, often in dubious deals...
While Obama cried for TV cameras yesterday, his administration was putting the finishing touches on a plan to transfer up to 17 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. This has been in the works for a while.
Catherine Herridge...
Tom Cotton, the freshman senator from Arkansas, has never minced words when giving his opinion of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
In a speech he gave at the Heritage Foundation in Washington last week, he reiterated this position, making a strong case for continuing to hold the remaining 107 prisoners in Cuba.
Opening his remarks...
Obama has been trying to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay since being sworn in as president and now he’s running out of time. Would it be surprising for him to just go around congress?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Obama’s Gitmo Workaround
President Obama is about to send Congress a doomed plan to...
Joining Rep. Trey Gowdy and Sen. Tim Scott at a Presidential town hall forum in South Carolina Thursday, Governor Rick Perry took questions ranging from entitlement reform to national security.
During a particularly emotional moment, Governor Perry went off script to discuss his deep-rooted feelings about military service.
When asked by an...
At a speech to the City Club of Cleveland yesterday afternoon, President Obama summoned once again the hobgoblin of his presidency: Guantanamo Bay.
During a Q&A session the President revealed that, if he could start his presidency over, with perfect hindsight, he would close Gitmo on day one.
Who does he...
Berg-dog.
Club Gitmo.
Feeling so…ISIS right now.
Every year, the city of Tampa, Florida gathers at the Gasparilla Pirate Festival to soak in a little sun, a little more music, and one too many of those gigantic frozen margaritas.
Not exactly the best venue to discuss pressing issues of foreign policy, but still—you’d expect the...
Newly elected Republican Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) has no problem stating how he really feels about Gitmo detainees.
In a hearing on the administration’s recent decision to close the Guantanamo Bay facilities, (something Senator Obama promised to do when he was running for President in 2008), Senator Cotton grilled Brian McKeon,...
Last week, the Wall Street Journal released a report on Barack Obama’s latest push to fulfill his most famous campaign promise—achieving the permanent closure of U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Senior administration officials are saying that the President is serious about coming through on the Gitmo closure, and is considering...
We’ve already seen how Democrats are trying to mobilize the base with the quiet promise of Obama executive action on “immigration reform.”
Here’s the chaser for the base — Obama might also close Gitmo, via Washington Examiner:
President Obama is exploring executive action to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a...
On Christmas Day 2009, Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate exposives contained in his underwear on a flight arriving in Detroit. Abdulmutallab unexpectedly
Large law firms.
Oh sure, they’ll give thousands of pro bono hours fighting for the rights of Gitmo detainees, but remember why they are Large law firms.
They have Large corporate clients including Large Banks and Large Investment Banks and Large Broker-Dealers who pay them Large Legal Fees so they can pay associates Large Salaries and partners Large...
It’s 9:45 a.m. Eastern.
Is there anyone who has not opined on the killing of Osama bin Laden yet?
Yes, there is. The world awaits word from … the prolific Glenn Greenwald. Nothing on Twitter, or at Salon.com.
