Military commission charges confirmed against Saudi Guantanamo detainee
The US Department of Defense (DOD) said Friday that charges have been referred to a military commission trial against Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri . Al-Nashiri is accused of...
US Department of Defense prosecutors announced Monday they had filed charges related to the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole against Guantanamo Bay detainee...
DOD investigation uncovers at least 50 videotaped terror interrogations: NYT
An ongoing Pentagon investigation into the videotaping of terror suspect interrogations has uncovered at least 50 videotaped interrogations, the New York Times reported Thursday. Most of the videotaped interrogations involved two terror detainees, Jose Padilla [BBC profile; JURIST news...
Injustice at Guantanamo: Torture Evidence and the Military Commissions Act
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the rules of evidence governing the recently announced military commission trials of six alleged al Qaeda members, combined with the Bush administration's efforts to sanitize the legal...
CIA chief confirms use of waterboarding on 3 terror detainees
The CIA has used waterboarding "on only three detainees" since September 11, 2001, CIA Director Michael Hayden told the US Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday. Stipulating that the interrogation technique has not been...
CIA requests DOJ probe into waterboarding comments by ex-agent
The US Central Intelligence agency (CIA) has requested that the Department of Justice conduct an investigation into whether former CIA agent John Kiriakou illegally released classified information when he spoke to several news organizations last week [JURIST...
Ex-CIA agent confirms use of waterboarding in terror interrogations
A retired US CIA agent told ABC News Monday that CIA interrogators have successfully used waterboarding to get crucial information about planned terror attacks, though the agent did say he considered the technique to be torture....
DOJ lawyers warned CIA against destruction of 'harsh interrogation' tapes: NYT
US Department of Justice lawyers advised the CIA's general counsel in 2003 not to destroy videotapes showing the "harsh interrogations" of high-value terror detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news...
Guantanamo detainee says torture prompted confession to USS Cole bombing
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , the suspected mastermind of the 2000 USS Cole bombing and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, said his confession to the...
A Yemeni appeals court Saturday upheld a death sentence against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , a Saudi militant suspected of being a close associate of Osama Bin Laden. Nashiri and fellow militant Jamal al-Badawi had received death penalties for...
