Barack Obama, Closing Guantanamo Bay | featured news

President Barack Obama's vow to try again to close the Guantanamo Bay prison remains a tough sell in Congress....

President Obama acknowledged for the first time that his administration would miss a self-imposed deadline.

White House counsel Greg Craig, who's leaving in early January, has been the subject of repeated questions about his future since late summer. Centered on talk that Obama's promise to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison by January had gone awry under Craig's leadership, the questions were settled Friday when the White House announced Craig's departure.

An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort to close the detention camp, a military spokesman said on Monday.

Obama considering plan to create courtroom-within-a-prison complex on U.S. soil to house Gitmo detainees

President Obama on Thursday will try to take the reins on the debate over national security and rally support for his plan to shutter the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in what his administration is billing as a major address. In recent weeks, conservative critics have blasted Obama for what they see as missteps on national security.