Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Guantanamo, hunger strikes and medical ethics

2013-06-15 05:00:00

As prisoners continue to wage a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a pointed opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that military physicians who oversee such� feedings are guilty of aggravated assault and should...

Obama returns to Berlin, no longer a 'superstar'

2013-06-15 15:51:00

WASHINGTON — Five years ago, when Americans had not yet made up their minds on their choice for president, Europe had. More than 200,000 people crowded the streets of Berlin — a favorite backdrop for U.S. politicians reaching for history...

Goldberg: We can't trust Obama

2013-06-11 00:00:00

The contradictions at the heart of the Obama presidency are finally out in the open. As a result, a man who came into office hellbent on restoring faith in government is on the verge of inspiring a libertarian revival. There have always been (at least)...

Atty. Gen. Holder defends record, hints he may step down

2013-06-06 15:59:00

WASHINGTON — For years, embattled Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. has repeatedly vowed not to resign under pressure. But on Thursday he talked of "fatigue" and admitted he thought of a day when he would meet with the president at the White House to...

Prosecutors look to closely link Bradley Manning and Julian Assange

2013-06-03 14:05:00

FT. MEADE, Md. — Government prosecutors seeking life in prison for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning opened his court-martial Monday closely linking the young, nondescript enlistee from Oklahoma with the outsized Julian Assange, head of the anti-secrecy...

Bradley Manning decided in 2009 to leak U.S. secrets, his lawyer says

2013-06-03 10:41:00

FT. MEADE, Md. -- Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s decision to release classified U.S. government secrets came in late December 2009, when he was new to Iraq and learned to his horror that a family of five was grievously injured by a roadside bomb....

Pfc. Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks trial also a test for government

2013-06-01 19:48:00

WASHINGTON — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has already confessed to mishandling classified information for sending hundreds of thousands of U.S. intelligence documents to the WikiLeaks website, including reports of airstrikes that killed civilians,...

Atty. Gen. Holder defends record, hints at possible successor

2013-06-06 11:17:00

WASHINGON — Embattled Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply defended his work as the Obama administration’s top federal law enforcement official but also conceded Thursday that he sees a day when he will meet with the president at the White...

Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows

2013-05-24 13:47:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 26 - June 1, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES Trisha's Southern Kitchen In the season...

A new response in the war on terror

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Better late than never, President Obama has moved to establish more rigorous standards for the targeted killings of Americans and foreigners alike away from a battlefield. The need for what he called "strong oversight of all lethal action" was one theme...

Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?

2013-05-24 05:00:00

The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...

Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans

2013-05-17 05:00:00

A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...

Amnesty International volunteers wear masks and orange suits depicting detainees at Guantanamo Bay

2013-06-16 18:29:10

President Obama listens as a protester shouts during a speech about his administration's drone and counterterrorism policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.

2013-05-23 00:00:00

Activists with the Code Pink group dress in orange jumpsuits and read the names of Guantanamo Bay prisoners during a vigil outside the White House last week. President Obama on Thursday called the practice of indefinite detention at the 11-year-old offshore prison an abandonment of U.S.

2013-05-17 00:00:00