Judges in Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo Bay yesterday turned down last-minute attempts to delay the military commissions trial of the driver for Osama bin Laden.
In a House Judiciary Committee hearing today, former Attorney General John Ashcroft disavowed the reasoning behind controversial legal memos created by Department of Justice attorneys that critics say justified torture…
In 2003 then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recommended five candidates to head the Office of Legal Counsel, and administration officials rejected all of them, the Washington Post reports.
Updated: A partner at Covington & Burling who represents 15 Guantanamo detainees took off his pants at a news conference in Yemen on Monday to illustrate the humiliating strip searches…
A splintered federal appeals court, ruling in an en banc opinion, has upheld President Bush’s power to detain a Qatar man arrested here as an enemy combatant, but granted the…
Jim Robinson oversaw the Justice Department’s criminal division during the Clinton administration, but that didn’t stop his name from ending up on the government’s terrorism watch list.
The judge overseeing the prosecution of Osama bin Laden’s driver has told lawyers in the case to work out an arrangement to allow requested testimony by the mastermind of the…
In a 2,455-page indictment submitted to a Turkish court today, the government has charged 86 alleged members of a militant secular group with plotting to overthrow the country’s Islamist government.
A secret Canadian government report says a youth detained at Guantanamo Bay was deprived of sleep in an effort to make him more willing to talk during interrogations.
At least four out of five Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks are rejecting lawyers, but they are facing some difficulties as they try to represent themselves.
As expected, the Senate approved a bill today that significantly expands the government’s domestic wiretapping powers and provides immunity from liability for telecommunications companies that previously cooperated with such spying…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., who is hearing appeals from 200 terrorism detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba told lawyers for both sides yesterday…