GUANTANAMO BAY — The pre-trial hearing for a 23-year old Canadian citizen tried before a military commission is likely to host some of the most dramatic testimony of the post-9/11 era this week. That is, if More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Making the most of their first court appearance since President Obama halted and then resumed the military commissions, attorneys for Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen held here since he was 15 years old and charged with murder and support for terrorism, launched a forceful case Wednesday afternoon More…
In a packed room of civil libertarians assembled for a Constitution Project dinner, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a passionate if unpopular defense of the use of military commissions in addition to civilian courts to prosecute terrorism detainees.
Just how many terrorists have American civilian courts convicted? The Justice Department is happy to let you know.
In filings provided to the congressional intelligence and judiciary committees — and now to the press — the Department itemized all the people it’s successfully prosecuted since 9/11. It divides them into More…
One more thing about former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller and her charges about being kept in the dark by the U.S. on torture. According to the Independent, Dame Eliza said that the Bush administration grew enamored of torture with the aid of a certain television show…
In the latest bit of brazen slander from the right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a scandal about Justice Department lawyers who — horror — represented Guantanamo detainees. You know, provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which More…
Greg Sargent finds a plum for liberals inside a new CNN poll.
As you know, the police and FBI agents always inform suspects of their constitutional right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present during any questioning. Do you think law enforcement officials should or should not
In the (unconfirmed) event anyone in the Obama administration is trying to annul the citizenship of any American recruited by al-Qaeda in order to kill him without legal encumbrance, the evidence is (mostly) clear: you can’t.
“If you’re an American citizen, we don’t take away your citizenship,” said Karen Greenberg, More…
TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims — or, as Spencer puts it, “simply lying” — on the case of would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Check out the video after the jump:
Mark Hosenball checks facts. After the Obama administration averred that the Justice Department successfully secured the convictions or guilty pleas of about 300 people in terrorism cases during the Bush era, GOP apparatchiks like ex-White House spokeswoman Dana Perino and even Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) called Obama a liar. More…
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