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The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals for all Guantanamo Bay detainees have been completed. Navy Secretary Gordon England , who has overseen the CSRT process, announced that 38 of...

According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response to widespread criticism...

FBI agents at Guantanamo Bay concluded the military's aggressive interrogation policy yielded intelligence that was "suspect at best," according to a newly released FBI document . The report on Gitmo interrogations comes from an...

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official...

JURIST Guest Columnist Admiral John Hutson (Ret. USN), former Navy Judge Advocate General, President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, and now a party to the ACLU torture suit against Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, wonders what myriad reports of...

The Pentagon wants to cut in half the number of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay by tranferring many prisoners out of the country to facilities in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to a report published in Friday's...

Skeptics on and off Capitol Hill Thursday assailed a new report on military interrogation practices authored by US Navy chief of staff and former Inspector General Admiral Albert T. Church that effectively concluded that the Pentagon's civilian and military...

The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that they had filed a lawsuit in Illinois against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and several other US military...

Does v. Bush, et al., Petition for writ of habeas corpus, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, February 11, 2005 . Excerpt:Petitioners...

Ruling by the German Federal Prosecutor, February 10, 2005 [rejecting a complaint brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights and 4 former Iraqi detainees seeking prosecution under German law of US officials for war crimes in connection with actions of...