Backers of a White House effort to extend the administration’s wiretap authority killed an alternate bill in the Senate yesterday that would have given a special court greater surveillance oversight.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer told law students yesterday that the U.S. Supreme Court is the “border guard” protecting the line between security and civil liberties.
The Bush administration has agreed to turn over documents about its warrantless wiretap program to members of the House intelligence and judiciary committees.
The president acted after some intelligence committee…
Two men accused of shooting videos of the Capitol and other nearby sites in hopes they would impress terrorists were able to make contact through the Internet, according to details…
Updated: Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting to release a dirty bomb in the United States, has been sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison for conspiring to…
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…
The CIA official who headed the CIA’s clandestine operations division, Jose Rodriguez Jr., believed he had tacit approval to destroy two videotapes of harsh interrogations because he was never given…
A former federal prosecutor who was acquitted last fall on criminal charges that he withheld evidence favorable to four North African suspects in a high-profile 2003 Detroit terrorism trial is…
The House intelligence committee has withdrawn a demand for testimony on Wednesday from the CIA official who approved the destruction of two videotapes showing harsh interrogations.
The laws have been stretched to cover the case of Jose Padilla, paving the way for precedents that could allow government overreaching in garden-variety criminal cases, a former New Jersey…
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.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., says a Justice Department investigation into the destruction of two CIA interrogation videotapes should be sufficient, and there is no…