Convicted Muslim clerk Ali al-Timimi claims in court papers that he has evidence showing he was illegally wiretapped under the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretap program.
Although Afghanistan officially has government courts to settle civil disputes and rule on criminal matters, there is another option that citizens, in some cases, are pursuing in order to get…
Large law firms have lined up to provide “legal dream teams” for the world’s most dangerous men at Guantanamo, outgunning the 60 or so Justice Department lawyers handling about 200…
The U.S. Supreme Court has directed a federal appeals court to reconsider the claims of four former Guantanamo detainees from the United Kingdom who claim they were tortured and their…
Speaking against the advice of his lawyers, a former Justice Department official told Newsweek magazine that he leaked news of the government’s warrantless wiretap program.
Contradicting Bush administration claims that harsh prisoner interrogation techniques were sought by front-line military officers in the war against terrorism, a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee report released yesterday in redacted…
U.S. Supreme Court justices mulling whether to toss a Muslim cable TV installer’s suit against the former attorney general turned to an unusual hypothetical: Could the chief executive officer of…
A special congressional panel will seek an investigation into allegations that the National Security Agency concealed secret wiretaps during the trial of a Muslim scholar convicted of terrorism charges.
The U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed today to hear arguments about whether the president can order the detention of enemy combatants captured on U.S. soil.
The Berkeley, Calif., City Council has scheduled a vote next week on a war crimes resolution targeting a law professor who wrote a so-called torture memo while working in the…
Barack Obama’s Justice Department transition team may not be able to see some sensitive legal opinions until after the January inauguration, even though some of the members have received security…