Less than six months remain until President Barack Obama's deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba, but more than 200 men remain there in detention.

New details have been emerging almost daily about the plans for the prisoners, including transfer to the United States, return to their home countries or relocation to a third country.

NPR's Ari Shapiro updates various plans to move or close the Guantanamo detainee facility.

CIA interrogators who used waterboarding on terrorism suspects will not face prosecution, President Barack Obama said in his announcement of the release of long-secret Bush administration-era memos, which authorized the use of exceptional interrogation techniques.

In his second full day in office, President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders Thursday morning to close the Guantanamo detention center within a year, ban the harshest interrogation methods and review military war crimes trials.

A bill overhauling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, was recently approved after nearly a year of passionate debate in Congress as to the scope of the legal protections afforded telecom companies.