In addition to other obstacles that could well prevent prosecution of private Blackwater USA security guards who reportedly killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad last month, there’s one more major…
Telecommunications companies that cooperated with a terrorism wiretap program relied on letters that said the attorney general and White House counsel endorsed the activities.
Guantanamo’s former chief prosecutor tells the Wall Street Journal he resigned after concluding that U.S. meddling in the prosecutions of accused terrorists would not end with…
President Bush announced in 2006 that the CIA’s secret overseas prisons for terrorism suspects were temporarily closed. But he transferred only 14 of the suspected al-Qaida leaders to Guantanamo Bay;…
The president does have the Constitutional power to wiretap terrorism suspects without a warrant, Michael Mukasey says in a response released today to written questions posed by Senate Judiciary Committee…
The conviction of Australian David Hicks in a U.S. terrorism case after years of imprisonment at an American military prison at Guantanamo Bay has been a hot political issue in…
In a case that was widely viewed as a test of Bush administration anti-terrorism policy, a federal judge in Dallas declared a mistrial today on numerous charges against five individuals.…
A Navy lawyer who mailed a secret list of the names of 551 detainees at Guantanamo to a public interest group in a valentine was convicted for his act of…
A federal judge in Virginia has dismissed a privacy lawsuit against a Belgian banking cooperative accused of divulging private information to help the United States track terrorist funding.
The government is rebuilding cases against 15 accused al-Qaida leaders partly because of concerns that evidence gathered by CIA interrogations is inadmissible or controversial, the Los…
Updated: A federal appeals court quickly withdrew an opinion issued yesterday in a case filed by a Sept. 11 detainee because of concerns it contained information…