US military lawyers preparing charges for latest Guantanamo transferees
The chief US prosecutor for the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told reporters Tuesday that his office has begun preparing charge sheets for the 14 high-profile terror suspects who have been transferred...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that minimum due process guarantees under customary international law must not be denied when Congress attempts to articulate forms of procedure for new US military commissions...When considering...
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of Brooklyn Law School says that the lingering fog of the 9/11 attacks has clouded our perceptions, blurred our legal categories, and perhaps also compromised our judgment... For a month after September 11, 2001, I...
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that five years after 9/11 - five years that have witnessed Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Abu Ghraib and CIA "black sites" - there are hopeful signs that America is...
Senate GOP negotiating with White House on military commissions bill
Senate Republican leaders plan to negotiate with the White House through the weekend to resolve different versions of a bill that would legislatively authorize the establishment of military commissions for suspected terrorists. Saturday's New York Times...
Michael J. Kelly : "President Bush recently acknowledged the existence of the long-suspected C.I.A. detention facilities that the U.S. has used to interrogate and possibly torture high-value foreign members of al Qaeda captured abroad. This acknowledgement,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that President Bush's acknowledgement that high-level terror detainees have been held in secret CIA prisons should be the beginning of a cleansing process in which leaders...
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...
Top DOD lawyers say charged terrorists should see all evidence against them
The Defense Department's top military lawyers testified Thursday before the US House Armed Services Committee , urging Congress to reject White House proposals that would keep some evidence from suspected terrorists who face prosecutions. The Bush...
Military Commissions Act of 2006, White House, September 6, 2006 . Read the full text of proposed...
