Attorney General Michael Mukasey is defending his plan to use data mining to find and investigate individuals who fall within a profile considered to be suspicious.
Congress is expected to approve legislation today that updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and expands government power to obtain broad foreign intelligence warrants.
Prosecutions of Bush administration officials for their conduct of the fight against terrorism are unlikely, said speakers at a panel held today during the World Justice Forum in Vienna.
The Department of Justice is considering a policy change that would allow the FBI to investigate individuals within the U.S. without any basis other than that they fall within a…
A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the government illegally wiretapped conversations between lawyers and a client, a now-defunct charity suspected of terrorism.
An Air Force accident report that was shielded from litigants because of the state secrets privilege turned out to carry no secrets but instead information indicating negligence.
Military trainers teaching interrogators about possible techniques to use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay relied on Chinese methods used during the Korean War that often elicited false confessions, the Jul 2, 2008 12:53 PM CDT
Against a backdrop of increasingly violent contention that has led Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to rescind the knighthood of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, the president of the ABA today sent…
Updated: In a 39-page opinion that cites the author of Alice in Wonderland, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit says that verifiable and reliable evidence is required…
In a murder that apparently may relate to the assassination last month of another top Mexican police official at his Mexico City home, a senior police official and a bodyguard…
In an unusual gaffe, the press was given copies of the 74-page verdict in a high-profile Irish murder trial by a court official today before the judge even had a…
A predawn sweep today in northeast Los Angeles by more than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers, including 10 SWAT teams, netted 28 suspected members of a notorious…
A federal appeals court has ruled a Guantanamo detainee was improperly classified as an enemy combatant in the first civilian court decision giving a detainee a chance to win release,…
The administration rejected advice from the solicitor general and other lawyers that its Guantanamo policies would be overturned by the federal courts.