Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to try five suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks in federal court in Manhattan and said they won’t be released in the U.S. if a jury acquits them. Holder said at a hearing ...

Tagged with: Eric Holder federal court Guantanamo Bay Senate Judiciary Committee terrorist trial

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self- proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four others accused of conspiring with him, will be tried in federal court in New York and likely will face the death penalty if convicted, Attorney General ...

Tagged with: Guantanamo Bay Khalid Sheikh Mohammed New York

Greg Craig, White House counsel, announced Friday that he’s resigning and will return to private law practice in Washington. Bob Bauer, who was counsel to President Barack Obama’s campaign, will replace Craig, according to a White House statement. “Because of ...

Tagged with: Greg Craig Guantanamo Bay White House staff

A prominent critic of evidentiary practices at Guantanamo Bay and an advocate for new federal civil rights legislation were the recipients Thursday of the 33rd annual Whittaker Award from the Lawyers Association of Kansas City. At a lunch at the World War I Museum in Kansas City, the association honored Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at the extraterritorial prison for terrorists in Cuba who resigned in protest over the use of evidence obtained through "enhanced interrogation techniques."

The group also honored Alvin Sykes (pictured), whose lobbying led to the signing of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which provides money for federal authorities to reopen cold civil rights-era criminal cases.

Tagged with: Alvin Sykes Guantanamo Bay Lawyers Association of Kansas City Morris Davis

The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether judges can order the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners into the U.S., accepting an inmate appeal opposed by the Obama administration and setting up a separation-of-powers showdown. The justices on Tuesday said they ...

Tagged with: Guantanamo Bay

As President Barack Obama tries to empty Guantanamo Bay of detainees, Americans and their politicians made it clear they don’t want terrorists in their backyards. “We don’t want them around,” Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said as most ...

Tagged with: Guantanamo Bay

President Obama today finds himself in two civil liberty/national security dilemmas: The president wants to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, send most of its residents to their home countries and bring some to the United States for trial. ...

Tagged with: Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions Act

President Barack Obama reaffirmed his determination to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next January, saying its existence has made the U.S. less secure and represents a corruption of American values. The president, in an address Thursday ...

Tagged with: Guantanamo Bay

A House panel approved a $94.2 billion war funding bill that rejects elements of President Barack Obama’s spending request, including money to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee Thursday on ...

Tagged with: Barack Obama David Obey Guantanamo Bay House Appropriations Committee

As the nation continues to focus on our economic woes, major legal and political decisions have been made regarding the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay with little or no attention. Within days of taking office, President Barack Obama signed ...

Tagged with: Barack Obama Boumediene Guantanamo Bay U.S. Supreme Court

A U.S. appeals court overturned a judge’s order that the government bring 17 ethnic Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp to the U.S. and release them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

Tagged with: Barack Obama Chinese Muslims Cuba Guantanamo Bay Ricardo Urbina