prisoners

“Has the Obama administration changed the legal rules for detaining suspects in the war on terrorism,” asked Harvard law professor Noah Feldman in an op-ed in The New York Times today, “or is it continuing in the footsteps of the Bush administration?”
As I wrote when the administration first announced it would stop using the term [...]

In an October 2001 memo released today on Monday, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not only deploy the military within the United States, but it may ignore the Bill of Rights in the process of doing so. Yoo and [...]

The Washington Post today reports on yet another challenge for the Obama administration:  finding the documents that will reveal just who all those Guantanamo Bay prisoners really are, and what, if anything, they’ve done wrong.
In their piece, reporters Karen DeYoung and Peter Finn report that the Bush administration’s files on these prisoners, some picked up [...]

After hearing arguments on whether prisoners held indefinitely without charge at the U.S.-controlled prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have the right to challenge their detention in American courts, Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia late Wednesday ordered the government to provide certain basic information [...]

Although Britain repeatedly refused Bush administration requests to take prisoners being held by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay, UPI reported on Thursday, via the Times of London, that the British government has changed its mind.
Eager to help president Obama close down the prison when he takes over in January — and no doubt hoping to [...]