A Paris court has convicted five former Guantanamo detainees for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise and sentenced each of them to one year in prison.
Pakistan has quietly freed nearly 100 terrorism suspects, apparently to avoid embarrassing revelations about the country’s secret detention system, the New York Times reports.
White House officials were more involved in discussions about the destruction of videotaped interrogations of al-Qaida suspects than previously reported.
At least four White House lawyers were part of the…
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing (PDF) Friday to consider whether the CIA violated a court order barring the destruction of evidence by destroying two…
A bill to give telecommunications companies immunity for aiding the government’s secret surveillance program won’t be considered in the Senate until after the holiday break.
The government’s data-mining program, in which it enlists telecommunications companies to help find suspicious calling patterns, isn’t being used exclusively to find terrorists.
Lawyers are citing the statements of an ex-employee to support their lawsuit claiming a California aviation company flew terrorism suspects to countries where they can be tortured.
Congress and the Department of Justice apparently may be headed for a showdown over the issue of whose investigation takes precedence concerning videotapes of al-Qaida interrogations destroyed by the CIA.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would bar the Central Intelligence Agency from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
The so-called Liberty City 7 trial in federal court in Miami over alleged, abortive plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI buildings in other major cities…
CIA Director Michael Hayden told journalists yesterday that his agency had not kept Congress fully informed about videotaped interrogations of terrorism suspects, both at the time the tapes were made…
The chief judge of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay apparently had a different view of the system when he was a master’s degree candidate at the Naval War College.
In an editorial published today in the Los Angeles Times, Attorney General Michael Mukasey backs liability protection for telecommunications companies that cooperated in a terrorism wiretap program.
The top legal adviser who oversees Guantanamo prosecutors told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee yesterday that evidence obtained by waterboarding could be used at detainees’ trials if judges agree it is…