guantanamo bay detention camp

An impassioned plea for freedom

Prisoners housed at Guantanamo deserve their day in court

I have been locked up at Guantanamo Bay for 12 years, held without charge or trial. I've done nothing wrong; in 2009, I was unanimously cleared for release by six different branches of the US government, including the FBI and the CIA. Yet here I am, still detained. The US government says I do not have the right to be treated as human. It says that I have committed serious crimes which cannot be ignored. But, if that is true, all I ask for is proof. But the government cannot even offer me that.

The president's exchange of five Taliban leaders for Bowe Bergdahl was a poorly thought out political strategy

This year's Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens will be the first since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the start of the long wars in Afghanistan in Iraq, in which there is no new Marylander killed overseas to add to the rolls.

Why is the CIA trying so hard to hide its alleged mistreatment of terrorist detainees from Congress?

Wheeler and Khalid represent a small but concerning segment of the population who have conspired to commit or aid in committing terrorist acts. There is no easy answer for what compels people like them to venture out on the dark path that leads to destruction, loss of life and prison. But the more important question is: "How can they be stopped?" This requires frank dialogue, and not only examination of factors that promote terrorism, but also our individual and collective roles in preemptive

America can't guarantee that we won't engage in torture if we don't examine the past.

Guantanamo detention center remains a stain on our national character

Guantanamo Bay prison bigger threat to U.S. security than Manning

Jonah Goldberg asks: If Obama is right that the war on terror is essentially over, why the need for massive surveillance?

President Barack Obama told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy on Friday that the nation needs them to "project power across the oceans" and vowed to continue to fight for military resources for their missions in the face of deep federal budget cuts.

President Barack Obama told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy on Friday that the nation needs them to "project power across the oceans" and vowed to continue to fight for military resources for their missions in the face of deep federal budget cuts.

President Barack Obama will travel to Annapolis to speak at the Naval Academy commencement, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit.

President Obama's call for new approach to counter-terrorism is right, if overdue

President Obama must make good on his 2009 pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and bring the detainees to the U.S. for trial.

The government bars me from arguing on behalf of my client, a Pakistani boy seized when he was 14

A controversial human rights bill targeted at Russia that was crafted by Sen. Ben Cardin is set to win congressional approval Wednesday despite a diplomatic brouhaha that has left the White House queasy and the Kremlin outraged.

An Army private charged with leaking classified material to WikiLeaks said Friday that he tied a bedsheet into a noose while considering suicide during his pretrial confinement in Kuwait.

An Army private charged with sending reams of classified information to the secret-busting website WikiLeaks testified Thursday that his jailers at a Marine Corps brig answered his complaints about "absurd" restrictions by tightening the screws.

President Obama offers a commendable record and a more pragmatic vision for the future than Mitt Romney.

Review of Romney debate performance fails to acknowledge Obama's faults

The first debate revealed President Obama's weaknesses

Jonah Goldberg says the Libya crisis is just the latest flashpoint in the administration's failures abroad

Obama administration missteps in Middle East facilitated Libyan attack

Americans came together after 9/11 because it made us realize what connects us to each other and to the country we all love

The U.S. should back off its criticism of Azerbaijan's handling of the Safarov case

Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living. He was 85.

Any hope that the arraignments of five men accused in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might bring healing to family members a decade after they lost loved ones at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was stymied by a start-stop proceeding in which the defendants refused to participate.

The public may watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects Saturday at Fort Meade, but a separate viewing area planned for family members of victims won't be ready in time, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

Members of the public may watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Fort Meade on Saturday, but seating will be limited, a spokesman for the Army base said Tuesday.

The Baltimore Police Department is taking steps to begin video recording interrogations in its most serious criminal investigations, a move long resisted over cost concerns that comes as an increasing number of Maryland law enforcement agencies are adopting the technology.

The general election in Maryland's 6th Congressional district offers voters a choice of two political outsiders with starkly divergent views.

Court documents and statements by his family and others provide details of Majid Khan's journey from Baltimore County to Camp 7 at Guantanamo Bay, a detention center so secret that its location within the base is classified.

Dante Parrish was convicted of murder in brutal stabbing of teenager Jason Mattison, whose body was stuffed in a bedroom closet.

Dante Parrish is asking a jury to find him innocent in the killing of 15-year-old Jason Mattison, a vibrant teenager from East Baltimore who was gagged, slashed and stuffed into a closet in 2009.

Putting the abuses of the past behind us must start with closing Guantanamo

Attorneys representing the 24-year-old Army private accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks made repeated references Saturday to signs that their client had gender identity disorder, noting that he had an alter ego called "Breanna Manning" and kept a folder of articles on the disorder in his sleeping quarters, including one partially titled "flight into hypermasculinity."

Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, we cannot look back on all that has happened with satisfaction, but we can take comfort that our worst fears after that day have not been realized.