The president of the American Bar Association has written the president of the United States, expressing concern that six terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay…
A second Department of Justice investigation, in addition to the one launched last month by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, has been under way for “several years” concerning the propriety of…
Updated: Charges were announced today against six men accused of planning and participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
A strong backer of the 2006 law establishing military commissions at Guantanamo Bay said this week he has reservations about using the tribunals to try juvenile detainees.
A day after CIA director Michael Hayden admitted in testimony before Congress that the Bush administration had used the so-called waterboarding technique on three al-Qaida suspects, a White House spokesman…
The Justice Department has told congressional staffers that legal obstacles could hinder prosecutions of Blackwater security guards who shot and killed 17 Iraqi…
In a sign that the difficult situation in Pakistan may be resolving, lawyers throughout the country plan to end their boycott of the country’s appellate courts.
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 chief judge of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay apparently had a different view of the system when he was a master’s degree candidate at the Naval War College.
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…
The director of the CIA will testify before Congress tomorrow and Wednesday about at least two videotapes the agency destroyed of its interrogations of terrorism suspects in their custody. The…
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether American citizens held in Iraq by a coalition of military forces have a right to have their cases heard in federal…
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