A former Haitian paramilitary leader, Emmaneul Constant, was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 years in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that cheated lenders out of $1.7 million.
The Pentagon’s report yesterday that the conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp meet all the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, was, not surprisingly, met with a mixture of skepticism and...
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pentagon documents released by rights groups Thursday detailed the agency's involvement in "war on terror" excesses, fueling debate over possible probes into the...
When Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday proposed to an audience at Georgetown University the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to investigate Bush administration lawbreaking, he...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration argued in court documents filed Friday that four former detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp who have sued over their treatment have no constitutional...
In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq can move ahead with their lawsuit against...
Following up on my earlier post about whether the Obama Justice Department really ought to be representing John Yoo — the notorious former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer during the Bush...
Passions surrounding various proposals that would investigate Bush administration wrongdoings are extremely high with interested parties not shying away from using harsh rhetoric towards fellow...
Washington, DC - The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday to explore setting up a commission to investigate and report on potentially criminal policies of the Bush administration...
