November 2006A week after Rumsfeld's resignation, lawyers asked a German prosecutor to investigate Rumsfeld and other American officials for mistreatment of prisoners in military jails in Iraq and Cuba.
Amy Davidson and Shane Kadidal discuss how thoroughly a federal court ruling undermines national security claims by the NSA – and White House. Watch the Video here.
Updated: December 15, 2015
On August 28, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government's request for a 'filter team' to review papers seized from detainees at Guantanamo late yesterday. The...
April 2013"Last week President Obama stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his predecessor to help celebrate the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and the legacy of President Bush’s eight years in...
July 6, 2015Nearly a year has passed since the firing heard around the world. Steven G. Salaita, whose job offer was revoked last summer by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign following a series of...
July 29, 2015Despite promises to close the detention center during Barack Obama’s presidential run, the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base remains open. And now it appears those detained at the controversial...
August 7, 2015A federal judge has just ruled against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which had sought to have Steven Salaita’s case against it tossed out. At the same time, the chancellor who had...
October 13, 2015A federal appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit over the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims, ruling that claimed public safety and national security concerns did not...
November 12, 2015More than a year after firing Dr. Steven Salaita from a tenured faculty position for publishing personal tweets critical of Israel's 2014 military assault on Gaza, the University of Illinois at...
November 14, 2015As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
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