Following blistering criticism by a federal judge who last week appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the government’s handling of a high-profile criminal corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens,…
It has become almost a truism, to a significant portion of the legal community, that former U.S. Department of Justice attorney John Yoo was way off target…
In a one-page ruling this week, a military judge thwarted attempts by the Pentagon to fire the lead attorney for Omar Khadr, the last western prisoner held prisoner at Guantanamo…
Some acquaintances wonder why Judge Jay Bybee signed two memos approving harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects when he led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2002.
U.S. security officials are working to overturn a decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to release three 2005 Justice Department memos approving harsh interrogation techniques.
After being held for six years without trial as “enemy combatants” at a United States military base airfield in Afghanistan, three prisoners in the war on terror can challenge their…
Earlier in the week, it was looking as if a yet another lawyer would bow out of a court appointment to represent the sole surviving gunman suspected of participating last…
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a detainee who has provided incriminating information against other men confined at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
A maximum security jail in Alexandria, Va., near high-priced condominiums and a luxury hotel could house Guantanamo inmates if they are tried in federal courts there.
A human rights lawyer says former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other former Bush administration officials should come to Spain to face accusations that they approved the torture of…
A failed interdiction approach unsuccessfully pursued by the United States for decades, as well as an “insatiable” demand in this country for illegal drugs. Both are partly to blame for…
There’s growing concern in suburban Alexandria, Va., that the Obama administration will move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to stand trial in the federal courthouse there.
A national security law expert who is a well-known critic of the Bush administration’s detention policies concerning suspected terrorists has been tapped by President Barack Obama to provide legal advice…
Four individuals who say they were tortured while held prisoner at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq can sue a U.S. defense contractor whose employees allegedly participated in the…