Lawyers for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a bid to obtain a new capital sentencing hearing.
After 11 years of litigation, the onetime owner of an Internet company can finally reveal what kind of information the FBI had sought about one of his customers.
The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t have to disclose about 10 documents regarding the legal basis for targeted drone killings of noncitizens overseas, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Concerned that social media messages could alert suspects in Brussels, where police have been conducting sweeps for possible terrorists linked to recent Paris attacks, authorities in Belgium asked the country’s…
Lawyers for a man accused of leading the attacks on the U.S. embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya, contend that his interrogation while on a U.S. Navy ship violated his right…
A federal appeals court has temporarily stayed a federal judge’s order barring the National Security Agency from collecting phone data related to a California lawyer and his law firm.
Working in such secrecy that even the U.S. attorney general was not consulted until the attack was about to take place, four senior federal lawyers drafted legal memos approving in…
Two former military psychologists who played a significant role in developing a U.S. interrogation program described by some opponents as tantamount to torture were never charged with any crime.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Congress violated the Constitution when it allowed victims of Iran-sponsored terrorism to seize nearly $2 billion in assets, although their cases…