The media are portraying the Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani verdict as a defeat for Obama’s plans to close Guantánamo—despite the fact that he could still get life in prison.
The UK announced a settlement with 16 Guantánamo Bay detainees who had sued MI5 and MI6 over allegations of torture. Details of the settlement have not been released.
No criminal charges will be brought against CIA officials for destroying videotapes of terror suspect interrogations during the Bush administration, the Justice Department announced.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ordered further review of a lower court decision to release Guantánamo detainee Mohamedou Olud Slahi, allegedly linked to the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
A panel of US military officers sentenced Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison, but he will serve no more than eight years under the terms of a plea agreement.
Prosecutors investigating the secret CIA prison in Poland gave Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri victim status, recognizing the validity of his claims that he was mistreated by interrogators.
Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to all five charges against him, including conspiracy, murder and aiding the enemy. He is the first child solider to be convicted at Gitmo.
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Ginco AKA Janko filed a lawsuit against the US military alleging that he was subjected to torture at the prison camp.
Cyberterrorism is such a threat that the US president should have the authority to shut down the Internet in the event of an attack, former CIA director Michael Hayden said.
The Obama administration filed a brief asking the District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the legality of targeted killings of terrorism suspects.
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a suit brought by the ACLU against a Boeing subsidiary in connection with its alleged role in the CIA “extraordinary rendition” program.
In an egregious and all too revealing faux pas, Amy Goodman appears to have put a mouthpiece of the German far right on Democracy Now as a "former UN expert" to discuss Venezuela. This is one Alfred de Zayas, who is given Goodman's typical sycophantic treatment—all softballs, no adversarial questions. We are treated to the accurate enough if not at all surprising line about how the US is attempting a coup with the complicity of the corporate media. Far more interesting than what he says is de Zayas himself. Not noted by Goodman is that he is on the board of the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung, a Berlin-based foundation established last year as the intellectual and policy arm of Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right party that has tapped anti-immigrant sentiment to win an alarming 94 seats in Germany's Bundestag. He has won a neo-Nazi following with his unseemly theories of Aliied "genocide" against Germans in World War II. (Image via Democracy Now)
