The deadly assault on the Holocaust Museum in Washington was presaged a month earlier by a neo-Nazi shooting attack on a group of ex-death camp inmates commemorating their liberation in Austria.
The US Supreme Court issued an order allowing the government more time to appeal a ruling that mandates release of photos allegedly depicting detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr asked to have his US military lawyers dismissed for arguing and disagreeing among themselves.
The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to reject a petition filed by 14 Chinese Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay seeking their release.
The photographs of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison that President Obama does not want to release include depictions of rape and sexual assault, according to former Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.
Former vice president Dick Cheney defended the national security policies of the Bush administration in a speech before the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Guantánamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani will be prosecuted in a US federal court for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
An Italian judge ruled that the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians in the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr by the CIA will proceed despite excluded evidence.
Members of the Senate voted 90-6 to approve an amendment eliminating $80 million from pending legislation intended to fund the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.
A military judge granted a motion to postpone hearings for Gitmo detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, staing that a delay will permit completion of the Detention Policy Review.
Judge John Bates in Washington DC ruled on the limits of detaining terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay, rejecting the Obama administration’s “substantial support” standard.
A coalition of progressive organizations filed complaints in five states seeking disbarment of ex-officials associated with the legal rationales behind the Bush administration’s use of torture.
