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Hamdan ruling won't affect NSA surveillance program: DOJ letter
The US Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [opinion text; JURIST news archive] has not changed the Justice Department's position on the legality of the National Security Agency's anti-terrorism surveillance program , ac (More) |
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Pentagon to apply Geneva Conventions to all detainees in military custody: FT
The US military has decided to apply the Geneva Conventions to all detainees held in US military custody around the world, according to Tuesday's Financial Times. The move marks a sharp reversal from a previous policy classifying detainees as & (More) |
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Guantanamo Bay detainees face 'systematic' abuse: CCR report
Prisoners at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to "systematic physical, psychological, sexual, medical and religious abuse," according to a report [PDF full text; synopsis] released Monday by the Center for Con (More) |
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DOJ tells court legal notes may have aided Guantanamo suicide plot
US Department of Justice lawyers said Friday in court documents that Guantanamo Bay detainees may have used paper provided by lawyers to plan the three suicides that occurred at the prison last month. The US filed a request with the US District C (More) |
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France defends undisclosed meetings with Guantanamo detainees
France has responded to reports that its intelligence agents interviewed six former Guantanamo Bay detainees now on trial in Paris while they were detained at the US prison, saying that the agents visited the detainees for the administrative purp (More) |
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Undisclosed interviews of Guantanamo detainees jeopardize Paris terror trial
Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees now on trial in Paris were interviewed by French authorities while they were still being held at the US prison, according to a French newspaper. A French diplomatic telegram published in the Liberation daily Wed (More) |
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Church report on detainee interrogations [US DOD]
Review of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques, VADM A.T. Church III, USN, March 7, 2005; released by the ACLU pursuant to a FOIA action, July 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST (More) |
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Trial of six former Guantanamo detainees begins in France
Six Frenchmen who were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay went on trial Monday in Paris, where they stand accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. France freed five of the suspects after their r (More) |
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Pentagon releases declassified Church report on detainee interrogations
The Pentagon released a declassified version of a 2005 review of US prisoner interrogation practices on Friday. The review, conducted by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church , found that while "interrogation policy could have benefited from additional ex (More) |
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European team inspecting Guantanamo says only 30-40 'real' terror cases possible
The head of a European inspection team tasked with evaluating the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that there may be only 30-40 "real" cases of terrorism there and recommended that the facility be shut down by the end of 2007. (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
