CIA medical personnel later objected to a description of the safety of waterboarding contained in a report sent to Justice Department lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
Updated: Attorney General Eric Holder has named a federal prosecutor to consider whether to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of some current and former CIA employees for abuses in interrogations…
A report by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility will recommend reopening almost a dozen cases alleging abuse of terrorism detainees during their interrogations, a source tells the Aug 24, 2009 11:42 AM CDT
The FBI has questioned three military defense lawyers to learn whether they showed photographs of interrogators for the CIA to Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks.
At least four protesters were arrested in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday after they refused to leave the lecture hall where former Justice Department official John Yoo was teaching a civil…
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are competing to prosecute accused high-profile terrorists housed at Guantanamo, but local leaders in Alexandria, Va., have…
As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder considers whether a criminal torture inquiry is needed into the tactics used by the CIA after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon…
Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly close to appointing a criminal prosecutor to probe allegations that the CIA committed abuses in the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
A soon-to-be-closed prison in Standish, Mich., and a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., are being considered as possible sites to hold and try Guantanamo detainees.
There aren’t many practicing lawyers with backgrounds as character actors on television. And there are even fewer whose acting career includes both The Sopranos and Law & Order.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has a few questions he would like to ask U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. And one of them concerns the war on terrorism.
When John Rizzo retires as acting general counsel of the CIA this summer, he will leave amid controversy over his role in approving harsh interrogations for terrorism suspects.