A recent federal court decision that yet another Guantanamo captive’s detention is illegal offers the most detailed picture to date o … more…
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Evidence is emerging that medical personnel monitored the medical effects of the wa … more…
The CIA has not released the names of terrorism suspects it held in secret detention with the exception of 14 who were transferred to … more…
Government lawyers booted the term "enemy combatants" from the Washington vernacular last week. Now, the Justice Department is callin … more…
What happens when an 11-year-old U.S. citizen is held by Afghanistan's intelligence service? According to the U.S. State Department, … more…
The strange case of Aafia Siddiqui continues. As we wrote last week, there are lingering questions about where Siddiqui was in the fi … more…
Last week, a jury in Guantanamo Bay convicted Salim Hamdan of a war crime. But according to a new book, the government might have tur … more…
The U.S.'s first war crimes trial since World War II has ended in a split verdict. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who acknowledged he chauffeure … more…
Of all the reports that have come out of Salim Hamdan's trial for providing support for terrorism, the first U.S. war crimes hearing … more…
As much as any other reporter, The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer has helped expose the post-9/11 system of detention, rendition and abuse o … more…
For 18 months, the Senate Armed Services Committee has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into the military's adoption of n … more…
January 26, 2010
Bush Pentagon Hired Conspiracy Theorist As Al Qaeda Specialist Justin Elliot, TPM Muckraker, January 26, 2010
January 08, 2010
U.S. Was More Focused on al-Qaida’s Plans Abroad Karen DeYoung and Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post, January 08, 2010
November 09, 2009
Officials: U.S. Aware of Shooter’s Efforts to Contact Al-Qaida Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole and Brian Ross, ABC News, November 09, 2009
August 12, 2009
Interrogator: ‘Intolerance’ Led to Torture Jeff Stein, CQ Politics, August 12, 2009
July 13, 2009
CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal ($), July 13, 2009
May 18, 2009
Cheney Said Gitmo Detainees Revealed Iraq-al Qaida Link Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy, May 18, 2009