Claiming the Pentagon is covering up abusive treatment of detainees, human rights lawyers filed a federal lawsuit against the Bush administration Thursday seeking full transcripts of military hearings held for…
Defense Department officials told the New York Times that a review has turned up 50 videotapes of interrogations at military facilities that show interrogations of two…
Law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University is taking aim at recent decisions by the attorney general by giving a name to the legal reasoning that spurred them: Mukasey’s…
A federal jury in Connecticut convicted a former U.S. Navy signalman today of providing material support to terrorists and disclosing classified national defense information in a close case in which…
An English travel agent who lives in Spain and sells Cuban trips to Europeans has been snagged by the long arm of the U.S. Treasury Department, which put his websites…
In an effort to identify terrorists before they are ready to carry out full-fledged attacks, U.S. authorities apparently are developing a protocol for infiltrating password-protected game-playing sites and pinpointing potential…
Weighing in on an issue that has created concern among lawyers, journalists and human rights advocates, among others, the American Bar Association has filed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief…
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…
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…
Germany’s highest court has ruled that the government may not use spy software to access information on personal computers absent a warrant and exceptional reasons to do so.