Italy’s highest court ruled that an investigation into the role of US and Italian intelligence agents in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect breached state secrets.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights Martin Scheinin cited the case of Canadian citizen and former US detainee Maher Arar in a report critical of international counter-terrorism practices.
Twelve of the 92 videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained evidence of torture, according to redacted documents filed with a federal court under an FOIA suit brought by the ACLU.
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed claims that documents sent from MI5 to the CIA show that the British intelligence agency was involved with his torture in Morocco.
The US Supreme Court granted a motion by the government to dismiss as moot an appeal challenging the indefinite detention of suspected al-Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
The CIA has destroyed 92 tapes of interrogations of “terror” suspects, far more than previously acknowledged, government lawyers said in a letter filed as part of an ACLU lawsuit.
Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for creation of a truth commission to investigate the national security policies of the Bush administration.
Lord Carlile, the UK’s independent reviewer of terror laws, called for a judicial inquiry into British complicity in US “rendition” and torture ion the wake of the Binyam Mohamed case.
After Obama took office, the Washington Post announced: “Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End.” Does this mean World War 4 Report has outlived its mission?
Suspected al-Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is to be tried in US federal court, following the unsealing of an indictment. Al-Marri’s habeas corpus petition is pending before the Supreme Court.
Lawyers for Canadian detainee Omar Khadr were blocked from attending a meeting with Khadr at Guantánamo Bay, as officials have launched an investigation into the ethics of the defense team.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that two former Israeli lobbyists may use classified documents in their defense against charges under the 1917 Espionage Act.
