What were the wages of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s botched Senate testimony Wednesday about being cut out of the loop on the interrogation of would-be Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab? Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Robert Bennett (R-Utah) More…
One concern that may animate the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force deciding that about 50 detainees must be held indefinitely without trial is that the basis for any prosecution is evidence obtained through torture or abuse. Judge John Coughenour, a sitting federal judge on the U.S. District Court in Seattle, More…
It’s hard to know whether this is good news or bad, but theoretically, at least, it could have been worse.
The Obama administration said on Wednesday that it will not seek new legislation from Congress authorizing the indefinite detention of about 50 terrorism suspects being held without charges More…
Here’s the response of Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to this morning’s news that some military defense lawyers are under investigation by the Justice Department:
This is nothing more than a misguided effort to shut down the vigorous defense of defendants at
Building on Daphne’s military commissions post building on mine, here’s a jubilant statement from ACLU executive director Anthony Romero:
Hey, this is going to come as a big shock, but it turns out that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners on trial for plotting Sept. 11 are actually claiming they’ve been tortured in prison.
What, you already knew that? Well, yeah, just about everyone else in the world did, too. Still, More…
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