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The highest-ranking lawyers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines weighed in on how terror detainees should be judged during a Thursday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the impact of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . The...

US Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said Thursday that the White House should propose detainee trials legislation soon after the return of senior officials from the G-8 summit hosted by Russia this month. In comments during a...

US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and other leading Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday pushed for legislation authorizing military commissions for terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay during a committee hearing ...

The US Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld has not changed the Justice Department's position on the legality of the National Security Agency's anti-terrorism surveillance program , according to a...

US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , told reporters Tuesday that the Defense Department has been too lenient in its policies on custody of terror suspects, questioning the release of...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and co-author of amicus briefs in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Guantanamo detainee litigation, says that although Hamdan directly...

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process, US Senate Judiciary Committee, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of witnesses'...

Geoffrey Corn : "Today it was reported that the Department of Defense has officially acknowledged that Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda. In fact, the Memorandum issued...

A lawyer for the US Department of Defense (DOD) told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that US military treatment of detainees complies with Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions , even though the Bush...

The US military has decided to apply the Geneva Conventions to all detainees held in US military custody around the world, according to Tuesday's Financial Times. The move marks a sharp reversal from a previous policy classifying...