Documents Suggest DOD Failed to Probe Alleged War Crimes

New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation as well.

Last month, Attorney More…

One of the Youngest Gitmo Detainees Returns to Afghanistan

In a major victory for Mohammed Jawad and the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented him, Jawad today returned home to Afghanistan. That means he’s likely not going to be charged under U.S. criminal laws, as the Justice Department indicated that it might do.

Jawad is the young Afghan arrested More…

Lead Military Lawyer Confirms Afghan Witnesses Said They Were Paid By U.S.

Following up on my story posted this morning about the government’s botched case against an Afghan teenager held at Guantanamo Bay, I spoke today to Maj. Gen. David Frakt, the lead military defense lawyer on the case who’s represented Jawad both before the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay More…

DOJ Responds to Claim That Witnesses in Jawad Case Were Paid by U.S.

In my last post on the “eyewitness evidence” the government claims it has against Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan who just won his habeas corpus case, I noted that military defense lawyer Eric Montalvo said that in his investigation of the Jawad case, he learned that the government’s More…

Government Takes a Different Tack in Jawad Case

Late this afternoon, as expected, the Justice Department filed its brief defending its claim that it can continue to hold Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, even though it hasn’t produced any admissible evidence that he committed a crime.

But instead of arguing that the government has More…

Tortured Gitmo Prisoner Opposes Halt of Military Commission Trial

As Spencer noted earlier, detainee advocates like the ACLU are hailing President Obama’s decision to seek a 120-day stay of the military commissions proceedings to decide what to do about the trials. However, the lawyer for Mohammed Jawad, an Afghani 17-year-old arrested five years ago for allegedly throwing a hand 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.