470 ABA Journal Guantanamo/Detainees articles.
A justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1940s has had a major influence in several recent opinions, thanks to one of his former clerks—U.S. Supreme Court Justice John…
Sep 8, 2007 1:53 PM CDT
What many contend was an excessive use of executive power by President George W. Bush is suddenly the topic of the month. An insider who happens to be a law…
Sep 6, 2007 12:29 AM CDT
The Bush administration lawyers who created the blueprint for the legal war on terror
Sep 1, 2007 7:15 AM CDT
Former military lawyers recount their fight to define justice for enemy combatants
Sep 1, 2007 5:45 AM CDT
The ABA has shaped the debate over the legal war on terrorism since 9/11
Sep 1, 2007 5:10 AM CDT
The nation’s largest group of behavioral experts ruled on Sunday that its members cannot be associated with interrogation techniques that the government has used on terrorism detainees.
In making its…
Aug 20, 2007 3:06 PM CDT
The Pentagon has declared that 14 “high value” CIA detainees transferred to Guantanamo are enemy combatants who may be tried by the tribunals there.
Among the detainees are men suspected…
Aug 9, 2007 5:46 PM CDT
The government is fighting Guantanamo legal battles on two fronts, trying to keep some detainees behind bars at the same time it is trying to force others to return to…
Aug 9, 2007 3:35 PM CDT
A human rights lawyer is trumpeting a possible ABA resolution declaring that a July 20, 2007 executive order by President George W. Bush concerning the interrogation of U.S. prisoners is…
Aug 8, 2007 10:17 PM CDT
The British government has reversed course and asked for the return of five former U.K. residents being held at Guantanamo Bay.
The New York Times says…
Aug 7, 2007 12:38 PM CDT
American intelligence agents tortured terrorist suspects captured after Sept. 11 in secret foreign prisons for years, suspending the practice only after the U.S. Supreme Court declared it illegal in a…
Aug 6, 2007 7:58 PM CDT
An inmate who spends 22 hours daily in a windowless steel isolation cell at the Guantanamo Bay prison is pleading with U.S. authorities not to release him.
That’s because Ahmed…
Jul 31, 2007 4:44 PM CDT
An Army reservist will be the first officer to face court-martial for abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison when he goes on trial next month.
Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan…
Jul 31, 2007 3:45 PM CDT
An Army reserve lawyer told a House committee yesterday that Guantanamo review tribunals relied on “garbage” evidence and simply “rubber stamped detentions.”
Lt. Col. Stephen E. Abraham made the comments…
Jul 27, 2007 3:49 PM CDT
A prominent U.S. Navy lawyer will serve as a visiting professor at Emory University School of Law this fall after retiring from the military, and he will help establish a…
Jul 25, 2007 10:46 PM CDT
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