A report by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility will recommend reopening almost a dozen cases alleging abuse of terrorism detainees during their interrogations, a source tells the Aug 24, 2009 11:42 AM CDT
The FBI has questioned three military defense lawyers to learn whether they showed photographs of interrogators for the CIA to Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks.
The CIA hired the private security contractor Blackwater in 2004 to help the agency track and kill al-Qaida terrorists, but abandoned the program after spending several million dollars.
Federal agents taught a blogger Hal Turner what he could and could not say on Internet websites as they trained him to be an “agent provacateur” pushing others to behave…
At least four protesters were arrested in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday after they refused to leave the lecture hall where former Justice Department official John Yoo was teaching a civil…
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are competing to prosecute accused high-profile terrorists housed at Guantanamo, but local leaders in Alexandria, Va., have…
As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder considers whether a criminal torture inquiry is needed into the tactics used by the CIA after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon…
Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly close to appointing a criminal prosecutor to probe allegations that the CIA committed abuses in the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
An amicus brief filed by the administration in a case involving a worker’s conversations with a lawyer is raising concern among liberals for its position on the state secrets privilege.
A soon-to-be-closed prison in Standish, Mich., and a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., are being considered as possible sites to hold and try Guantanamo detainees.
There aren’t many practicing lawyers with backgrounds as character actors on television. And there are even fewer whose acting career includes both The Sopranos and Law & Order.