Guantanamo commander says detainees no longer forcibly interrogated
US Rear Adm. Harry Harris , chief of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, has said that compulsory interrogations are no longer employed to elicit information from detainees due to their ineffectiveness as compared to "rapport...
Navy postpones hearing for Gitmo military lawyer accused of leaking detainee names
A US Navy spokesman said Monday that an Article 32 hearing scheduled for Tuesday in the case of Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, a staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps accused of leaking detainee names...
Notice of Military Commissions Act of 2006, US Department of Justice, October 20, 2006 [informing the US District Court for the District of Columbia that pursuant to provisions of the Act it no longer has jurisdiction over 196 habeas corpus...
DOJ tells federal courts they lack jurisdiction over detainee habeas claims
The US Justice Department has issued a notice informing the US District Court for the District of Columbia that it no longer has jurisdiction over 196 habeas corpus cases brought by detainees at...
Gonzales insists terror suspects face fair trials under Military Commissions Act
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted Wednesday that the newly-signed Military Commissions Act of 2006 that has drawn harsh criticism from rights groups and many legal experts...
The father of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has said that Hicks' defense team will challenge the Military Commissions Act of 2006 signed into law by President Bush...
David Hicks and the US Military Commissions Process: Next Steps
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of ANU College of Law, Australian National University, says that while passage of the new Military Commissions Act in the United States presents new challenges for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, it also creates an...
The US Navy lawyer who successfully represented the plaintiff Guantanamo detainee in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court has been denied a promotion and will leave the...
The Military Commissions Act: Congress Commits to the War on Terror
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says the new Military Commissions Act reflects a clear and much-needed Congressional commitment to the war...
JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Samaha of the University of Chicago Law School says that this Term's US Supreme Court cases will likely reveal whether we have a new boss on the Court who can push its decisions in new directions,...
