It took 64 years, and only two of 28 African-American soldiers wrongfully convicted of rioting charges connected with the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war in 1944, in the…
The government’s goal in the terrorism trial of the driver for Osama bin Laden may be to establish the credibility of the Guantanamo military commissions and keep them operating as…
An FBI interrogator testified yesterday that the driver for Osama bin Laden overheard the al-Qaida leader saying he was happy with the death toll in the Sept. 11 attacks.
An al-Qaida expert who testified about two interviews he conducted with the driver for Osama bin Laden said he gained his subject’s confidence with small favors.
Updated: An alleged war criminal arrested in Serbia yesterday after 13 years on the run disguised himself in the interim by donning a big pair of glasses, growing a…
A military judge’s evidence ruling yesterday in the case of Osama bin Laden’s former driver could have an impact in the case against the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11…
Judges in Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo Bay yesterday turned down last-minute attempts to delay the military commissions trial of the driver for Osama bin Laden.
A splintered federal appeals court, ruling in an en banc opinion, has upheld President Bush’s power to detain a Qatar man arrested here as an enemy combatant, but granted the…
The judge overseeing the prosecution of Osama bin Laden’s driver has told lawyers in the case to work out an arrangement to allow requested testimony by the mastermind of the…
At least four out of five Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks are rejecting lawyers, but they are facing some difficulties as they try to represent themselves.
The U.S. Justice Department has admitted it erred when it failed to inform the U.S. Supreme Court that a law adopted in 2006 authorized the death penalty for child rape…
Military trainers teaching interrogators about possible techniques to use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay relied on Chinese methods used during the Korean War that often elicited false confessions, the Jul 2, 2008 12:53 PM CDT
A blogger has pointed out an important fact missed by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the authors of 10 Supreme Court briefs: The military has a law authorizing the death…
After an appellate court ruling that a military prisoner held for more than six years without trial was improperly classified as an “enemy combatant,” the closure of…
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a case that considers the Navy’s use of sonar in training exercises, opposed by environmental groups who contend it harms endangered whales.
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