A private practitioner from Canada who represents a Guantanamo Bay detainee held since the age of 15 has reportedly been banned by his military co-counsel from the client’s upcoming arraignment…
Whether the president has the power to hold a legal U.S. resident in military custody as a so-called enemy combatant is being argued today before the full 4th U.S. Circuit…
Guantanamo’s former chief prosecutor tells the Wall Street Journal he resigned after concluding that U.S. meddling in the prosecutions of accused terrorists would not end with…
President Bush announced in 2006 that the CIA’s secret overseas prisons for terrorism suspects were temporarily closed. But he transferred only 14 of the suspected al-Qaida leaders to Guantanamo Bay;…
The president does have the Constitutional power to wiretap terrorism suspects without a warrant, Michael Mukasey says in a response released today to written questions posed by Senate Judiciary Committee…
The conviction of Australian David Hicks in a U.S. terrorism case after years of imprisonment at an American military prison at Guantanamo Bay has been a hot political issue in…
A Navy lawyer who mailed a secret list of the names of 551 detainees at Guantanamo to a public interest group in a valentine was convicted for his act of…
The government is rebuilding cases against 15 accused al-Qaida leaders partly because of concerns that evidence gathered by CIA interrogations is inadmissible or controversial, the Los…
The driver for Osama bin Laden has had many successes as he battles his detention at Guantanamo Bay, but he faced a setback with a military judge’s ruling yesterday.
The government is considering granting new hearings for Guantanamo detainees to determine whether they are unlawful enemy combatants who should continue to be held.
Lawyers at a Vermont firm that represents clients being held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan believe the federal government may be wiretapping their law…
The Bush administration argues in a U.S. Supreme Court brief (PDF posted by SCOTUSblog) that detainees at Guantanamo Bay “enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy…
A federal judge has barred the government from transferring a Guantanamo detainee to his home country of Tunisia, where he says he could be tortured or killed.
A second Army officer has submitted a court affidavit questioning the fairness of the process used to decide whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay are enemy combatants.
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