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.
The Supreme Court ruled that a complaint filed against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller and other officials failed to demonstrate an intentional pattern of discrimination.
President Obam announced that he is reinstating the controversial military commission system to try some Guantánamo Bay detainees—with changes to increase defendants’ rights.
US officials said that Algerian Guantánamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, whose habeas corpus case went to the Supreme Court, has been released and sent to France.
