Politics of Terror: Obama Misses Own Deadline to Close Gitmo

As the Obama administration fails to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by today's self-imposed deadline, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are attempting to drive the issue of terrorism detention and interrogations by asking the Justice Department for details on how it arrived at the decision to charge the Detroit Christmas bombing suspect and who authorized it. "We are writing to ask who within the Department of Justice made the decision on Christmas Day to treat...Full Story