Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in New York for medical treatment, but the State Department responds that he has diplomatic immunity.
The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in the United States recovering from burns suffered in an ‘Arab Spring’ explosion at his presidential compound in Sana’a.
Prosecutors working out procedures for handling secret evidence in the trial of an alleged Al Qaida chieftain invoked a surprising precedent Wednesday — the 2007 felony trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s aide.
The new admiral in charge of the Guantánamo Bay prison is seeking to impose significant changes to communications between lawyers and prisoners facing war-crimes charges at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, The Associated Press has learned.
A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guantánamo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko, a Syrian who sought recompense for alleged abusive treatment.
The website was launched last month to rehabilitate the reputation of the Guantánamo war court. So far, it's a hodgepodge of secrecy.
An email to lawyers makes clear that the alleged Sept. 11 plotters won’t be back at a military commission until next year.
The next war crimes trial prosecutor is pledging Guantánamo-to-US transmissions from the military commissions compound in remote Cuba
A federal judge in the state of Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit that sought an additional $282.5 million from Sudan for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
A military panel upholds a life sentence for Osama bin Laden’s propagandist, now at Guantánamo, in a ruling released on eve of 9/11 anniversary
Seminoles in 1818 similar to al Qaeda in 2001? Some Pentagon prosecutors appeared to make this analogy to support a Guantánamo war crimes conviction, then clarified in a war court filing.
The Obama administration on Monday announced that it will resume using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but officials said they're not giving up on trials in civilian courts and are still considering their options for trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 plotters.
An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at Guantánamo in a fatal grenade attack in Afghanistan years later because he realized that he got it wrong and wanted to fix the historical record.
The video was of the interrogation of Canadian Omar Khadr and remains classified, even though the Canadian Supreme Court released it two years ago and it can be seen on YouTube.
A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pentagon to release a long-held Mauritanian captive held at Guantánamo Bay who was once considered such a high-value detainee that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld designated him for "special interrogation techniques."
A federal judge has upheld as lawful the indefinite detention of an Algerian accused of being an al Qaeda bomb maker, raising the tally of U.S. government victories in Guantánamo habeas corpus lawsuits to eight.
Judges weighing who must stay at and who can go from Guantánamo have so far ruled for the release of 29 detainees and told the Pentagon it can retain seven others.
A federal judge has upheld the military detention of a Kuwaiti man whose lawyers were among the earliest and most persistent challengers of President George W. Bush's right to lock him up as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The last war-crimes session of the Bush administration was marked by antics from 9/11 defendants and pleas by relatives of 9/11 victims for swifter justice.
A federal judge in Washington who earlier ordered the release of some Algerians at Guantánamo to Bosnia on Wednesday further ordered the military to free a Gitmo captive from Chad who was captured at age 14.
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