Judge Sonia Sotomayor provided hints that she has concerns about some aspects of the war on terrorism—including expanded government wiretap authority—during a 2003 law school lecture.
Some congressional officials are privately expressing skepticism about government claims that overbroad collection of e-mail and telephone calls was accidental.
Concerns are being voiced as several congressional committees are investigating…
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming legal memos written by former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo led to the torture of a convicted terrorist.
A naturalized U.S. citizen was convicted of conspiracy to support terrorists four years after he and an alleged co-conspirator videotaped landmarks in Washington, D.C., and sent the footage to “Jihadi…
The corruption-fighting U.S. attorney in Chicago is threatening to sue a publisher over an upcoming book that, in his view, partly blames him for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In 2005, Justice Department lawyers differed over the propriety of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, but all agreed that it was legal.
A federal judge has upheld a law immunizing telecommunications companies from liability for participating in the government’s warrantless wiretapping program and dismissed dozens of lawsuits seeking damages.
Siding with the media and lawyers representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today gave the government a July 29 deadline.…
The man who created The Response, a film dramatization of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals that won an ABA Silver Gavel Award this year, will talk about…
In the latest potential prosecutorial embarrassment for the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal judge in California is threatening to sanction the government in a case brought over claimed warrantless…
Yesterday’s arrests were not the first brush with the law for four men accused of plotting to bomb two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes.
Countering critics’ claims that it is too dangerous to transport terrorism suspects to the United States for trial in civilian courts, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the first…