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JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the overall theme of the "compromise" military commissions bill seems to be the highly-problematic creation of a unique legal regime for a specific group of...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the Bush administration's post-9/11 detainee policies - most recently evidenced in the proposed military commissions bill that...

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...

One week after US President Bush confirmed the existence of secret prisons for high-value terror suspects run by the US Central Intelligence Agency abroad, top-level members of...

Nine former federal judges sent a letter to Congress on Thursday raising concerns about a provision in the proposed Military Commissions Act of 2006 that, according to the judges, would "strip the federal courts of...

The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , the region's official human rights watchdog organization, said Monday that US practices of allegedly subjecting terror suspects to torture do nothing to make the country safer...

A large percentage of US Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism officers have bought government-reimbursed private insurance plans that cover potential civil judgments and legal expenses associated with charges of criminal wrongdoing, according to Monday's Washington Post....

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...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday joined other Europeans in criticizing the Bush administration for admittedly operating clandestine Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detention centers in Europe, a practice which she called "not...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet can now face human rights charges stemming from the torture of thousands of citizens at Villa Grimaldi prison , an infamous political detention center run by Pinochet’s secret...