ABC News reports that the task force President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder empaneled to decide the venue for charging each remaining Guantanamo Bay detainee — civilian courts or military commissions — has wrapped up its work. So who won’t get charged — but will still be detained? More…
All three officials testifying before the Senate’s homeland security panel — Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence; Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security — all said they were not consulted about charging Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the culprit of the More…
From Reuters:
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lost a bid on Monday to overturn his guilty plea and his sentence of life in prison.
A U.S. appeals court rejected arguments by Moussaoui,
Officials in the Obama administration said they anticipate that if all goes as planned, the federal government will purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois by late winter, and begin preparations to house terror suspects currently held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The administration then plans to get the More…
When Attorney General Eric Holder announced earlier this month that the suspected plotters of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would be tried in civilian court, he also promised to seek the death penalty for all of them. But the heated debate that followed over the supposed dangers of trying “the More…
The National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday by the House of Representatives, includes a largely overlooked provision that modifies the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which allows the government to try certain terror suspects — now called “unprivileged enemy belligerents” instead of the Bush-era term, “unlawful enemy combatants” More…
Today’s news that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear the claims of kidnapping and torture filed against the United States by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, an innocent German citizen and car salesman subjected to the Bush administration’s extraordinary rendition program in 2003, More…
“They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families,” said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Standish, Mich., referring to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The steward, Tom Kerrins, spoke at a “town hall” meeting
That’s what I asked Joshua Dratel, Chair of the John Adams Project Advisory Committee and a prominent defense lawyer who has represented numerous terror suspects before. Speaking this morning after the news broke that the Department of Justice is investigating military defense lawyers representing terror suspects, More…
Peter Finn at The Washington Post reports this morning that the Justice Department is questioning military defense lawyers about whether they defended suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay too aggressively by showing them photos of CIA agents who might have been involved in abusive interrogations. Justice Department investigators are More…
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