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Bush presses controversial detainee bill in weekend radio address
President Bush used his weekly radio address [recorded audio; transcript] Saturday to reiterate his call to members of Congress to pass his proposed legislation [PDF text; White House fact sheet] on military commissions for terror detainees. Bush (More)
Bush urges congressional action on military commissions, surveillance bills
At a press conference [transcript; recorded video] in the Rose Garden Friday, President Bush urged members of Congress to approve his proposed legislation [PDF text; White House fact sheet] authorizing the use of military commissions for terror det (More)
Terrorism Trials in the Light: A Way Ahead?
JURIST Guest Columnist John Bickers of Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, says that for all the attention being paid to the procedures proposed for new US military commissions, how those procedures are used - who is to be tried, and (More)
Rice, Cheney feuded over secret CIA prisons: WashPost
President Bush's recent acknowledgement of secret CIA prisons for important terror detainees was motivated by the personal urgings of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to release all British prisoners, and from pleas to close the sites from other US (More)
Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects have now been transferred to the De (More)
Moussaoui testimony expected as defense gets underway in sentencing trial
The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday enters what analysts expect to be a critical week, with testimony from Moussaoui and other key witnesses. Prosecutors concluded their case for giving Moussaoui the death penalty last Thursday, (More)
Human rights group publishes list of 'ghost detainees' held by US
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a list of 26 "ghost detainees" , terror suspects that HRW alleges the US has not reported but is holding incommunicado and is possibly torturing. Many of the people on the list are suspected (More)
US not charging Padilla on "dirty bomb" because of torture evidence: NYT
Jose Padilla , a US citizen charged with planning to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the US, will not face those charges because US officials obtained evidence against him using torture on two al-Qaida members, according to a New Yo (More)
CIA report questioned legality of interrogation methods, sources say
A classified Central Intelligence Agency report issued in 2004 questioned whether certain interrogation tactics approved by the agency for use against terrorism suspects would violate the UN Convention Against Torture , current and former intellige (More)
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