Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff plans to release the legal ground rules this week for a planned satellite surveillance program in the United States.
The general counsel of the Defense Department has ditched a controversial plan that would have given the administration a say in the promotions of military lawyers.
The CIA will turn over documents about the destruction of videotaped interrogations to the House Intelligence Committee, congressional and intelligence officials told the New York Times.
New guidelines issued by Attorney General Michael Mukasey limit contact between Justice Department and White House officials in pending civil and criminal investigations.
Pakistan has quietly freed nearly 100 terrorism suspects, apparently to avoid embarrassing revelations about the country’s secret detention system, the New York Times reports.
White House officials were more involved in discussions about the destruction of videotaped interrogations of al-Qaida suspects than previously reported.
At least four White House lawyers were part of the…
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing (PDF) Friday to consider whether the CIA violated a court order barring the destruction of evidence by destroying two…
In a blow to the Bush administration’s effort to keep its roster of visitors private, a federal judge has ruled that the White House visitor logs are public.
The government’s data-mining program, in which it enlists telecommunications companies to help find suspicious calling patterns, isn’t being used exclusively to find terrorists.
Congress and the Department of Justice apparently may be headed for a showdown over the issue of whose investigation takes precedence concerning videotapes of al-Qaida interrogations destroyed by the CIA.
In the latest move toward a potential constitutional showdown between Congress and the White House, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to hold two aides to President George W. Bush…
CIA Director Michael Hayden told journalists yesterday that his agency had not kept Congress fully informed about videotaped interrogations of terrorism suspects, both at the time the tapes were made…
CIA director Michael Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that he couldn’t answer key questions about two interrogation videotapes made and destroyed before he took over leadership of the…
In its third public ruling in its 29-year history, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said today that it will not make public secret rulings striking down portions of a controversial…
A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspect allegedly tortured in Morocco when his interrogation was outsourced by the U.S. says the CIA was present and has photographs of the…
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