White House near decision to close Gitmo
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The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move its terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.
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The latest sign of trouble for the White House.
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Congress and the White House appear headed for a showdown over President Bush's decision to invoke executive privilege to deny documents to House and Senate committees and prevent former aides from testifying about the firing of U.S. attorneys.
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A debate is intensifying inside the White House over whether President George W. Bush should try to prevent more Republican defections by announcing intentions for a gradual withdrawal of troops from high-casualty Iraqi areas, the New York Times said on Monday.
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Most of the prisoners being held at the  U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay are expected to be  released or extradited, the deputy commander of the unit that  runs the base was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
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The last four Britons and an  Australian being held at the highly contentious U.S. military  base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are to released, the Pentagon  said Tuesday.
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The U.S. would consider military force if necessary to stem al-Qaida's growing ability to use its hideout in Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks, a White House aide said Sunday.
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The White House is split on how long to exercise patience without jeopardizing the fulfillment of an agreement.
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White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees
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The U.S. military has ordered three detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay to be freed and 25 others to remain as secret hearings were held into the cases of more terror suspects.
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As debate about the future of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay heats up, a leading defense lawyer questions whether closing Gitmo would make any difference as to the rights of the detainees.
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The government asked a judge Thursday to delay a hearing in the case of a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001, saying an agreement to set the man free is imminent.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguing on Capitol Hill on the legal rights of detainees.
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White House and congressional  officials said on Monday they were close to a deal with a key  Republican lawmaker to end a monthlong standoff over  legislation to overhaul the nation's spy agencies.
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President Bush is to announce a wave of restrictions on Burma's ruling military junta, the White House says.
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The White House and Senate   Republicans were near a deal on legislation setting out rules   for interrogating and trying foreign terrorism suspects, an   aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Thursday.
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The White House told lawmakers it would send Congress a revised proposal late Monday for dealing with terrorism suspects as the number of GOP senators publicly opposing President Bush's initial plan continued to grow.