President Obama signed a four-year extension of the Patriot Act minutes before it was set to expire—following three days of filibustering by Sen. Rand Paul over concerns about gun rights and privacy.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision that Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Musa’ab Omar al-Madhwani is lawfully detained for being part of al-Qaeda.
Some international law experts are calling the Osama bin Laden killing an illegal “extrajudicial assassination”—as the White House equivocates on whether an effort was made to take bin Laden alive.
The ascension to Langley of Gen. David Petraeus—architect of Bush’s Iraq “surge”—comes just as the Obama administration has explicitly taken on a regime change project in Libya.
WikiLeaks began publishing “The Guantanamo Files,” a collection of more than 700 classified documents relating to the evidence against and treatment of almost all detainees held at Guantánamo Bay between 2002 and 2008.
The US Department of Defense announced that Guantánamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri will be subject to capital charges and tried in a military court for his allegedly involvement in the USS Cole bombing.
A former Guantánamo Bay detainee announced that he is suing members of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s regime over allegations that he was tortured by the government while in Egyptian custody.
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other co-conspirators will be tried before a military commission for their roles in the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned a lower court’s decision granting release to Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman.
John McCain introduced legislation to prohibit funding for civilian trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees and place restrictions on the transfer of detainees to foreign countries.
US President Barack Obama issued an executive order allowing military commissions for Guantánamo Bay detainees to resume for the first time since he took office.
Will Julian Assange’s connections to the notorious anti-Semite and apparent agent of the Belarus dictatorship Israel Shamir be exposed before he wins a Nobel Peace Prize? We hope so.
