A federal judge has barred the government from transferring a Guantanamo detainee to his home country of Tunisia, where he says he could be tortured or killed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to grant review in a case that challenges the CIA’s “extraordinary renditions” program, in which it sends detainees abroad for harsh questioning, Oct 9, 2007 2:14 PM CDT
A government leak of an Osama bin Laden video secretly obtained by a company that monitors intelligence has alerted al-Qaida to the private surveillance operation.
A second Army officer has submitted a court affidavit questioning the fairness of the process used to decide whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay are enemy combatants.
In another reaction to a lengthy New York Times article yesterday on secret Department of Justice legal opinions on interrogation tactics, the director of the…
Reacting to controversy sparked by a New York Times article yesterday about two secret Department of Justice legal opinions in 2005 that at least arguably conflict…
Clive Stafford Smith is a lawyer who serves as the legal director of Reprieve, a British human rights agency that represents prisoners at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler this week ordered the U.S. not to transfer a detainee in Afghanistan without giving his attorney at least 30 days’ notice.
Congressional committees are launching investigations, after a New York Times article today revealed that two secret Department of Justice opinions in 2005 endorsed prisoner interrogation techniques some consider tantamount to…
The Washington Post is urging Congress to address judges’ concerns with two tools used by the Bush administration to gather evidence in its war on terror: national…