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Government Won’t Appeal Gitmo Detainee’s Habeas Case — but Military Commission Charges Still Pending

By | 11.05.09 | 11:55 am

Fouad al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti Airways engineer accused of being an aide to Osama bin Laden who recently won his habeas corpus case in federal court, is a step closer to going home. McClatchy newspapers reports that the 50-year-old father of four was moved to the More…

Levin Calls for Independent Prosecutor to Investigate Culpability in Detainee Abuse

By | 04.27.09 | 9:15 am

Without using the word “prosecutor”, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) appears to be calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the criminal culpability of former Bush officials.

In an op-ed in the Holland [Mich.] Sentinel posted last night, Levin recaps the evidence detailed in More…

Zelikow Memo is Further Evidence of Criminal Culpability

By | 04.24.09 | 10:54 am

While much of the mainstream media — Charlie Savage at The New York Times and John MacKinnon at The Wall Street Journal, among others — were reporting yesterday on how it would be virtually impossible to prove that the Bush administration’s lawyers’ approval of torture amounted to a More…

Senate Announces CIA Probe — Now What About Justice?

By | 03.05.09 | 4:29 pm

As TWI’s lightning-fast national security reporter Spencer Ackerman just wrote, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence just formally announced what we’ve known and been reporting on for weeks now: it will review the CIA’s detention and interrogation program during the Bush years.

That’s welcome news for all of More…