The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous...
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Dick Marty , the Swiss parliamentarian who has been leading the Council of Europe probe into CIA terror secret prisons and renditions in Europe , announced Tuesday that he intends to accompany UN Special...
House Judiciary Committee approves military commissions bill after killing it
The US House Judiciary Committee approved the Military Commissions Act Wednesday 20-19, but only after its Republican leadership harnessed enough votes to overcome an initial 20-17 vote that would have killed the legislation. Key...
The 14 "high-value" terror suspects recently transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay are expected to face Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings in the next two to three months, according to...
Bush presses controversial detainee bill in weekend radio address
President Bush used his weekly radio address Saturday to reiterate his call to members of Congress to pass his proposed legislation on military commissions for...
Bush urges congressional action on military commissions, surveillance bills
At a press conference in the Rose Garden Friday, President Bush urged members of Congress to approve his proposed legislation authorizing the use of military commissions for...
JURIST Guest Columnist John Bickers of Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, says that for all the attention being paid to the procedures proposed for new US military commissions, how those procedures are used - who is to be...
President Bush's recent acknowledgement of secret CIA prisons for important terror detainees was motivated by the personal urgings of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to release all British prisoners, and from pleas to close the sites from...
Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects...
Moussaoui testimony expected as defense gets underway in sentencing trial
The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday enters what analysts expect to be a critical week, with testimony from Moussaoui and other key witnesses. Prosecutors concluded their case for giving Moussaoui the death...