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Veterans Sue for Stress Disorder Benefits

Lawyers representing veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are filing a class action lawsuit claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has failed to provide care for post-traumatic stress disorder. Morrison & Foerster and partner Gordon Erspamer are handling the case on a pro bono basis. Erspamer waged…

Jul 23, 2007 7:17 PM CDT

Inside Gitmo Lawyer Creates a Stir

An Army reserve lawyer with an inside view of military tribunals at Guantanamo is scheduled to testify about his criticisms of the review process before a House committee this Thursday. Stephen Abraham is an unlikely critic, the New York Times reports in a profile. He is a lawyer in civilian…

Jul 23, 2007 4:23 PM CDT

Court Slaps VA

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s order requiring the government to pay retroactive benefits to Vietnam veterans suffering from a type of leukemia linked to Agent Orange exposure. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday rebuked the Department of Veterans Affairs for its stance…

Jul 20, 2007 5:14 PM CDT

Gitmo Lawyer: U.S. Agents Seized Notes

A Canadian attorney representing an accused enemy combatant held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison says he was harassed and had his legal notes reviewed on Saturday by U.S. authorities. On his way home after meeting with his client, Omar Khadr, 20, Dennis Edney was singled out by U.S. customs…

Jul 17, 2007 12:56 AM CDT

Report: Rape Used as Weapon in Sudan

A government-backed militia is systematically using rape as a method of so-called ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a report by a humanitarian group says. The Janjaweed militia can do so with impunity due to hostility to rape claims by local police and the difficulty of providing…

Jul 4, 2007 1:18 AM CDT

Khadr, 20, Starts 6th Year at Gitmo Jail

Although he scored a big legal victory June 4, when the U.S. government–at least for now–was told by a military court that its terrorism charges against him are invalid, Omar Khadr’s day-to-day situation is still the same. Held since he was 15 years old at the U.S. military prison at…

Jul 3, 2007 5:37 PM CDT

CIA Documents Show U.S. Dirty Deeds

From an unsuccessful government plot to have a Chicago mobster assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to a failed effort to bug the Las Vegas hotel room of comedian Dan Rowan and a sidelines role in the Watergate scandal, recently released CIA documents show a plethora of dirty deeds committed by…

Jun 27, 2007 8:18 PM CDT

Toxic Tap Water for Years at Marine Base

At least twenty-five years after toxins were found to have seeped into the water supply at a North Carolina marine base, the situation is still being studied. A report released Tuesday, as emotional testimony began at a hearing by the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee by individuals who say they…

Jun 13, 2007 11:05 PM CDT

Nuremberg Attorney: Gitmo Trials Unfair

An 88-year-old American lawyer who helped try war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II says today’s Guantanamo Bay cases fly in the face of the prosecutorial precedent he helped set there. “I think Robert Jackson, who’s the architect of Nuremberg, would turn over in his grave if he…

Jun 12, 2007 12:27 AM CDT

Report: CIA Ran Secret Prisons in Europe

The Central Intelligence Agency reportedly ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005, with the collaboration of U.S. allies, in violation of European human rights treaties. However, officials in all of the countries involved said the claim of secret prisons used to interrogate al-Quaida suspects is untrue…

Jun 8, 2007 5:17 PM CDT

More American Officials in Laos Plot?

It isn’t just the California National Guard that may have had at least a peripheral involvement in an alleged California-based plot to overthrow the communist government of Laos.” “Officials said their probe may extend to a former Wisconsin state senator, an unnamed congressman and the California Highway Patrol,” an AP…

Jun 7, 2007 5:37 PM CDT

9 Arrested in Alleged California Plot to Overthrow Government of Laos

A retired lieutenant colonel in the California National Guard and eight accomplices, including a former Laotian general, reportedly were arrested today in federal raids by some 200 agents spread across the state. Their alleged crime: a claimed plot to buy millions of dollars worth of weapons to help overthrow the…

Jun 5, 2007 2:44 AM CDT

Gitmo Detainee Died in Apparent Suicide

A Guantanamo detainee was found dead in his cell yesterday in an apparent suicide. The death highlights claims by detainee lawyers that the psychological condition of their clients is deteriorating, according to the New York Times. “It was simply a matter of time before this suicide,” Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, one of…

May 31, 2007 3:42 PM CDT

Dems Seek Contractor Accountability

Democrats are pushing for more prosecutions of private contractors who commit violent crimes in Iraq. U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D.-Ill., is sponsoring legislation requiring the administration to publish contractor data. “There are almost as many contractors in Iraq as soldiers, and they seem to be entirely outside the reach of…

May 14, 2007 3:39 PM CDT

DOJ Won’t Limit Gitmo Lawyer Visits

The Justice Department has dropped a request to restrict lawyer visits with Guantanamo detainees, but is persisting in efforts to screen communications and limit access to evidence. DOJ lawyers said they were dropping the request for a three-visit limit in a filing yesterday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for…

May 12, 2007 3:08 PM CDT

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