A military judge Friday rejected a motion by the Pentagon's chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay to delay the military commission hearing of the five detainees being held as 9/11...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in six cases. In Forest Grove School District, Petitioner v. T. A. , the Court will consider whether the Individuals with...
Outgoing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Michael Hayden during a Thursday press conference defended the controversial interrogation techniques used to gather information in the "war on terror." Hayden strongly defended the CIA-termed "enhanced...
In Re: Directives * Pursuant to Section 105B of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, August 22, 2008 ....
The Chairman-Designate of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Mary Schapiro on Thursday expressed her commitment to reinvigorate enforcement at the SEC during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing,...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favor of French publishers Olivier Orban and Xavier de Bartillat who were convicted in France in 2002 of defending war crimes...
The US federal government acted within the Constitution when it compelled a telecommunications company to assist in warrantless surveillance of certain customers, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISC) said in a ruling...
The US has not formally asked the European Union (EU) to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay following US President-elect Barack Obama's planned closing of the facility, according to a Thursday statement from...
US Attorney General nominee Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee in confirmation hearings Thursday that he believes waterboarding constitutes torture and that it could take a long time to close the...
UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband said Thursday in a Guardian editorial that the "war of terror" embraced by the US and UK governments in recent years was a "misleading and...