The driver for Osama bin Laden has had many successes as he battles his detention at Guantanamo Bay, but he faced a setback with a military judge’s ruling yesterday.
People who received calls from passengers aboard a flight that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11 will not be allowed to testify in a suit by one of the…
The Bush administration’s Justice Department has reallocated its resources, focusing less on mobsters and some white-collar crimes and more on terrorism, weapons offenses and immigration violations.
The ABA is urging Congress to ensure that legislation extending the government’s wiretap authority in terrorism investigations contains adequate safeguards.
As efforts continue to address controversial killings of civilians in Iraq by private American military contractors, some United States officials reportedly are asking whether such conduct could put the U.S.…
The government is considering granting new hearings for Guantanamo detainees to determine whether they are unlawful enemy combatants who should continue to be held.
The former CEO of Qwest Communications claims the company lost hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts after he refused its request for customer records in a secret surveillance…
CIA Director Michael Hayden has ordered an internal review of the agency’s inspector general following the office’s probes of detention and interrogation programs.
Lawyers at a Vermont firm that represents clients being held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan believe the federal government may be wiretapping their law…
Some moviegoers might think Hollywood overstates the horrors of being kidnapped by the CIA and taken to a secret foreign prison to be tortured in Rendition, a new film to…
The aftermath of a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirming the state secrets doctrine shows why the decision needs to be revisited, the New York Times…
The Bush administration argues in a U.S. Supreme Court brief (PDF posted by SCOTUSblog) that detainees at Guantanamo Bay “enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy…