Obama Signs Potentially Unconstitutional Bill Prohibiting Release of Gitmo Prisoners in U.S.

As expected, yesterday President Obama signed a supplemental appropriations bill that prohibits the release of Guantanamo detainees into the United States, and restricts the president’s ability to release them to other countries without Congressional approval.

The little-noticed provision raises constitutional questions about who has the power More…

Fox News Takes Sotomayor’s Remarks on Enemy Combatants Out of Context

As reporters scoured the latest batch of documents dumped on the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday night for clues to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s views on any matter that may potentially come before the Supreme Court, Fox News report on Tuesday More…

Holder: Terrorists Won’t Be Released Into United States

Faced with bipartisan resistance to the idea of releasing any of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised a Senate committee that he would not release any suspected terrorists into the United States, CNN reports.

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Can U.S. Courts Free Innocent Gitmo Prisoners?

In what’s being called the first major challenge of the Obama administration’s detention policy, lawyers on Monday filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of Kiyemba v. Obama, in which a Court More…

Leahy Admits Truth Commission Idea is Dead

We’ve been speculating that Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposed truth commission to investigate alleged lawbreaking during the Bush administration may not be going anywhere, but now it seems Leahy is saying that himself.

Charlotte Dennett, a journalist and former candidate for Vermont attorney general, writes in Consortiumnews.com More…

‘American Taliban’ Waived His Rights to Sue for Abuse, Too

In my quest to find former “enemy combatants” who were required to agree not to sue the United States for unlawful indefinite detention and mistreatment as a condition of their release, I’ve found another one: John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.”

Gitmo Special Envoy Highlights Obama’s Prisoner Problem

Reports that the Obama administration will appoint the assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Bush administration, Daniel Fried, as a special envoy on the Guantanamo Bay prison suggest the Obama administration is at least trying to deal with the question of what to do with many of More…

What’s the Department of Defense Hiding About Bagram?

As President Obama talks about building up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it raises the inevitable question about what he’s going to do with the 600 prisoners the United States is holding at the prison at the Bagram air base – and whether previous plans to build a new More…

Bush Administration Urges Admission of Teen’s Tortured Confession

The Bush administration is set to argue to the military commissions appeals court in Washington Tuesday that a confession obtained from a teenager under torture in Afghanistan should still be admissible against him at his trial.