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.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said that the CIA misled Congress about the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush administration.
President Barack Obama has decided to seek a delay of the release of photographs depicting abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, reversing an earlier decision.
US Nuremberg trials prosecutor Henry King Jr. died Saturday from cancer at the age of 89. He was an outspoken critic of US practices at Guantánamo Bay and the Military Commissions Act.
The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the government’s intent to appeal a court ruling directing Ottawa to push for the repatriation of Canadian Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr.
Google appears to have eliminated the foreign country news page links from the bottom of the Google News page—which World War 4 Report depends on intimately for our work.
Attorney General Eric Holder hailed the guilty plea of former “enemy combatant” Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri as evidence that “our criminal justice system can and will hold…terrorists accountable.”
