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Former US State Department lawyer Vijay Padmanabhan publicly criticized the administration of ex-president Bush for approving the use of torture against terrorism suspects.
Human Rights Watch called for the US and Yemen to agree on a repatriation plan that provides “meaningful legal process” for the nearly 100 Yemeni detainees still at Guantánamo Bay.
Crusading Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon has asked prosecutors to investigate the US lawyers reportedly behind the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
A US judge in New York March 27 ordered the CIA to release reports on the destruction of 92 videotapes of terrorism suspect interrogations within 30 days or explain why it should not do so.
UK Attorney General Baroness Scotland said police will conduct an investigation into claims that MI5 agents took part in the abusive interrogation of ex-Gitmo detainee Binyam Mohamed.
The Obama administration has formally abandoned the phrase “Global War on Terrorism” for the more clinical and antiseptic “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
The ACLU hailed a decision denying the Pentagon’s appeal of a ruling that it must disclose photographs of apparent detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Chas Freeman’s withdrawal as chair the National Intelligence Council—allegedly due to pressure from the “Israel Lobby”—opens a window into the paleo-neocon jockeying in the Obama administration.
The Obama administration officially abandoned the term “enemy combatant,” stating in a Justice Department brief that it will seek a new standard for authority to hold detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
Maine millionaire and neo-Nazi sympathizer James G. Cummings, slain by his wife in December, allegedly had the radioactive components necessary to build a “dirty bomb.”
The government’s terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, according to figures released to USA Today—up 32% since 2007.
