Article covering the Ahmed Ghalaini indictment and delving into the rationale and implications for using miltary tribunals rather than the Federal court system. It also covers details of the Ghalaini...
The Center for Constitutional Rights presented arguments before US District Court Judge Gary Lancaster describing a pattern of unconstitutional searches and seizures on the part of local law...
If Elena Kagan replaces John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush might wish for another try at persuading the justices to rule his way on a couple of items.
The Obama administration remains committed to trying more terrorism suspects in civilian court even though a federal jury acquitted a Tanzanian of all but one charge in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings...
Kim Kardashian's ascendance to the presidency is about as likely as the notion that WikiLeaks harmed U.S. national security, lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning argued in a defense brief released...
A treasure trove of newly discovered documents about detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has revived familiar questions: Were too many innocent men incarcerated there ove...
... A Guantanamo Bay prisoner held in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack gave a first hand account of the US government ’s brutal interrogation programme, which included sexual assault and forced...
...Friend-of-the-court arguments in support of plaintiffs were filed by David J. Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, as well as by EarthRights International and the...
A complaint filed against Rumsfeld asking a German federal prosecutor to begin an investigation and eventually a criminal prosecution will inevitably tie him to allegations of U.S. warranted torture...
