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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference Tuesday that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay were well-treated and...

US Representative Duncan Hunter , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that there are members of the Bush administration who want to close the Guantanamo Bay prison...

Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of...

Despite increasing pressure to close the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the government did not have any plans to shut down the facility...

When asked about the fate of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay during a Fox News interview Wednesday, President Bush insisted that all prisoners there are being treated in accordance with international standards, but did say that...

Former US President Jimmy Carter closed a two-day human rights conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday by saying that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp and two...

US Senator Joseph Biden said Sunday on ABC-TV's This Week that the US should begin efforts to close down the military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Biden, head Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ,...

JTF-Gitmo Information on Detainees, US Department of Defense, March 4, 2005. Excerpt:The US Government currently maintains custody of approximately 550 enemy combatants in the Global War on Terrorism at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many of these enemy combatants are highly trained,...

A draft of Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales' prepared statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee intended for delivery at his confirmation hearing Thursday and obtained late Wednesday notably makes no mention of torture, prisoners, detainees, Guantanamo, Iraq or the...

Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales seems likely to face stiff questioning in his Senate confirmation hearing this week after the Bush administration's refusal to provide senators with copies of his memos on the interrogation of suspected terrorists. Illinois Senator...