Obama's address came amid increased pressure from Congress on both the drone program and the status of the Guantanamo prison.
Obama was interrupted three times by a woman from the anti-war group Code Pink, who appeared to be protesting both the drone program and the Guantanamo prison.
President Obama on Thursday signed an order mandating that the Guantanamo Bay prison be closed within the year.
Mr. Obama is engaged in similar unilateral disarmament with respect to the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
He also said he would resume steps to shrink and eventually close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Last night, under a federal court order, the Pentagon released the names of detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
The Bush administration appears to be engaged in a lively internal debate over what to do with the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
His speech in May on national security and the terrorist threat revived an issue from his 2008 campaign, the closing of the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Some Republicans said the U.S. should have brought Mr. Abu Ghaith to the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rather than prepare criminal charges in a regular federal court.
Justice Stephen Breyer also asked what would stop the president from holding the same type of trial in Toledo, Ohio, not just at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Obama suspended the military commissions by signing an executive order on his third day in office, the same day he signed an order to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo within a year and announced a 120-day review of the whole process.
Obama had pledged to shutter the prison at Guantanamo soon after taking office but Congress opposed it, passing a law that prohibits the government from transferring Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil and requiring security guarantees before they can be sent elsewhere in the world.
President Barack Obama had pledged to shutter the prison at Guantanamo soon after taking office but Congress opposed it, passing a law that prohibits the government from transferring Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil and requiring security guarantees before they can be sent elsewhere in the world.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell gave 107 floor speeches on health care, and 25 speeches on why we shouldn't close the prison camp at Guantanamo.
On 11 January 2002 some 20 men detained in Afghanistan on suspicion of belonging to Al-Qaeda became the first inmates at a newly opened US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Meanwhile, the American military is expanding the prison facility for suspected terrorists at its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The White House is considering closing Guantanamo and transferring some of the most dangerous suspects to a prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
The interruption came as a defence lawyer referred to a secret, overseas CIA prison where the defendants were held before they were brought to Guantanamo Bay.
While the Obama administration continues efforts to shutter Guantanamo's detention facilities, moving most of the 183 detainees to a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois and resettling others to third party countries, an honest appraisal of the threat posed by its detainees, past and present, is in order.
While Obama worked to close Guantanamo early in his first term, Congress enacted significant restrictions on the transfer of detainees from the prison that made its closure impractical.
David Hicks, an Australian detainee at Guantanamo, plea bargained his way out of the camp with time served and nine months in an Australian prison.
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