Reports of yet another controversial Justice Department memo by John Yoo have surfaced. This one said the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures doesn’t apply to military operations…
CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen has one good thing—and only one good thing—to say about John Yoo’s so-called “torture” memo: At least the Justice Department attorney was persuasive.
Updated: Some Democratic lawmakers contend a recently declassified 2003 Justice Department memo may have led to harsh treatment of military prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Updated: A newly declassified 2003 Justice Department memorandum maintains that treaties and criminal statutes against torture and assault don’t apply to military interrogators questioning al-Qaida suspects overseas because the president…
A controversial case concerning an al-Qaida terrorism suspect who has been held in U.S. custody since he was 15 years old is being argued in Canada’s highest court today, where…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in his professional life yesterday, restoring a tradition that the Justice Department’s top lawyer participate in…
ABA President William H. Neukom is expressing “grave concerns” about coerced evidence, restrictions on lawyers and other aspects of the Guantanamo trial process.
Lawyers for four Kuwaitis being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say government prosecutors are violating standard legal ethics rules by contacting defendants whom they know…
A high-level al-Qaida operative who allegedly helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan has been secretly held and interrogated since last summer at an undisclosed location, the Pentagon revealed today.
A federal appeals court has ruled that judges can consider pleas by Guantanamo detainees that seek to block their transfers to countries where they may be tortured.
Despite a secret court’s constitutional objections under the First Amendment, the FBI went ahead and collected private electronic data such as e-mail and telephone records in two national security probes…