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10 Aug 2007, 1:38 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense has cleared for release one of the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees who was a legal resident in the UK before his detention, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Sandy Hodgkinson said Thursday. [read post]
23 Feb 2008, 9:07 pm
Nick Schwellenbach, national security investigator at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO): "The Department of Defense rebuked Air Force demands... [read post]
16 Dec 2005, 2:17 am
[JURIST] The British government has announced that it will appeal a High Court ruling [JURIST report] earlier this week that found Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive; advocacy website] eligible for British citizenship. [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 12:33 am
Part 1 and Part 2 from the Georgetown Faculty Blog. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 8:44 am
The former White House lawyer who helped expose religious discrimination at the U.S. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 11:07 am
[JURIST] Murat Kurnaz [Amnesty International case sheet; JURIST news archive], a Turkish citizen born in Germany and formerly held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], plans to request the release of secret military documents pertaining to his detention, according to his lawyer as reported in Wednesday's Der Tagesspiegel [media website, in German]. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
News release: AeroVironment Develops World’s First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA Nano Hummingbird [see accompanying video] -... [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 11:57 am
The recent confrontations between the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department and the city’s African-American community have served at least one purpose: it has shown the entire nation that too many police… read more → [read post]
10 Mar 2005, 1:41 am
[JURIST] An investigation of US military interrogation policies and techniques presented to Congress Thursday by former US Navy Inspector-General Vice Adm. [read post]
9 Mar 2006, 4:30 am
[JURIST] Reuters is reporting that the US military will close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] and transfer approximately 4,500 prisoners to other facilities in Iraq, according to a military spokesman. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 4:15 am
[JURIST] A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] said Monday that the US will not change its policy on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives] detainees to Saudi Arabia, despite reports that two former prisoners have joined al Qaeda in Yemen. [read post]
10 Apr 2011, 5:30 am
Listen up, kids, this is what happens when you are straining to justify exemptions to the Constitution for certain classes of really bad people -- you wind up citing precedent from other unlawful or excessive periods of history driven by populist rage -- it could have been Korematsu but in this case it was that whole slaughter of the Seminoles thing:“Not only was the Seminole belligerency unlawful, but, much like modern-day al Qaeda, the very way in which the Seminoles waged war against U.S.… [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 9:54 pm
The ACLU scored a victory today in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 5:01 pm
CDT and other civil liberties groups are urging Congress to reject legislation that would exempt the Department of Defense from a key provision of the Privacy Act. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 5:18 am
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28 Jun 2007, 11:42 am
The ACLU filed a government sunshine suit Thursday against the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, seeking to force the agencies to disclose documents about their use of a powerful and secretive Patriot Act power known as a National Security Letter. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 11:02 am
'The Post' may be cruising to an Oscar, but there's an awfully big problem with its Supreme Court history. [read post]
7 Jan 2007, 8:15 pm
On Friday, the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper reported on "one of the most ferocious lobbying campaigns in recent history . . . the battle between EADS, owner of Airbus, and Boeing, for a $200bn . . .... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 1:58 pm
Via Reuters, we have been spending $7.5 million a day in Iraq since mid-June. [read post]
8 Sep 2006, 3:11 am
[JURIST] The Military Commissions Act of 2006 [PDF text; White House fact sheet] would allow CIA agents and others to use interrogation techniques not condoned by the US Department of Defense [official website] and would restrict federal courts' ability to enforce prisoner rights guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials], according to legal experts quoted in Friday's New York Times. [read post]
