The long legal battle over the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has succeeded in raising—but not yet answering—a basic question about American law: What is…
The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to review an appellate ruling requiring the government to supply extensive information about its designation of more than 180 Guantanamo detainees as…
A federal judge has cited the state secrets privilege in dismissing a lawsuit that contends a Boeing subsidiary helped the CIA transport prisoners to overseas prisons for torture.
The commander of the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay said in a court filing on Friday that he recently learned surveillance tapes of detainees were automatically overwritten.
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.
The Justice Department plans to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of a ruling requiring the government to supply more information about its designation of…
An actor-turned-lawyer has written a 30-minute screenplay that imagines the deliberations of three military judges deciding whether to hold a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant.
A lawyer is blasting the United States’ treatment of a Guantánamo detainee after the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of her emergency request for his medical records.
A federal judge in New York said yesterday that he is inclined against holding the CIA in contempt for failing to produce information about destroyed interrogation videotapes in a freedom…
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by four British detainees who contended they were tortured and their religious beliefs denigrated while at Guantanamo Bay.