and we will continue continue to steadily chip away at the numbers in guantanamo. if the reuters report is true, it would make ash carter the second defense secretary with whom the president has clashed over guantanamo bay. chuck hagel recently confirmed his slowness to approve detainee transfers led to his being force out of his job by the after less than a year this past february. hagel added that white house officials tried to, quote, destroy his reputation on his way out. those allegations surfaced on the day the president gave that year-end news conference, but he wasn t asked about them. so the white house has not yet responded to hagel s claims. shannon? all right, james. thank you very much. here with more reaction, pete hegseth, a veteran of the wars in iraq and iran. also was a guard at guantanamo bay. and a white house senior adviser under president bill clinton and
and we will continue continue to steadily chip away at the numbers in guantanamo. if the reuters report is true, it would make ash carter the second defense secretary with whom the president has clashed over guantanamo bay. chuck hagel recently confirmed his slowness to approve detainee transfers led to his being force out of his job by the after less than a year this past february. hagel added that white house officials tried to, quote, destroy his reputation on his way out. those allegations surfaced on the day the president gave that year-end news conference, but he wasn t asked about them. so the white house has not yet responded to hagel s claims. shannon? all right, james. thank you very much. here with more reaction, pete hegseth, a veteran of the wars in iraq and iran. also was a guard at guantanamo bay. and a white house senior adviser under president bill clinton and
energy lives here. breaking tonight, a stunning new report alleging that pentagon officials have created bureaucratic obstacles to slow down the process of transferring detainees from guantanamo bay and halting president obama s plans to shut down that detention center. measures apparently included refusing to provide photographs, complete medical records, and other basic documentation to foreign governments who were willing to take detainees. the report also revealing president obama scolded yet another defense secretary over the transfer of detainees from gitmo. james rosen is in washington with that story. james? shannon, good evening. senior defense department sources tell fox news that the pentagon s move to slow down the emptying of the terrorist
said to have been key aides of bin laden. in response to extra division ruling, some jihadist website called for u.k. to be punis punished. they could be on their way to states in a matter of weeks but as the story has been full of legal twists and turns, those awaiting them at the department of justice won t breathe a sigh of relief until terror suspects are wheels up. bret: amy, thank you. obama administration has recently made public a new list of prisoners cleared for release or transfer from the terrorist detention facility at guantanamo bay, cuba. apparently having served time there is becoming for insurgents, but having a harvard degree is for college graduates. tonight, catherine herridge reports on what some of the gitmo alumni are up to. sufyan bin qumu identified
chris: two years after president obama promised to close the terrorist detention facility at guantanamo bay, cuba, there is now word that the administration is ramping up use of military tribunals to try the detainees. national correspondent cath ridge herridge reports the first case will be a familiar one. confirmation that the planner of the uss cole attack in 2000 that killed soldiers off the coast of yemen will be prosecuted in guantanamo bay shows that the obama administration embraced military commission. white house press secretary insisted it was the administration s position all along. you heard the president in the archive speech that we had different groups of those in guantanamo they d be dealt with in different ways. the decision to prosecute