The Military Commissions Act, signed into law by Congress, allows the U.S. to retain its authority on deciding what forms of interrogation are not war crimes under the War Crimes Act and the Geneva...
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees' alleged that U.S. violated its own rules in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals after it labeled hundreds of prisoners as enemy combatants.
On June 28,2004, the Supreme Court declared that, in Rasul v. Bush, 14 enemy combatants held in Guantanamo Bay could challenge their imprisonment in a federal court.
U.S. military reports that the number of hunger strikes in Guantanamo Bay has fallen by half after a surge in participation that began on Christmas day
A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the National Security Agency in New York, claiming that the U.S. illegally spied on 16 lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay...
After drawing wide criticism for attempting to prohibit basic right's of detainees, the U.S. declared it would not limit detainees' visits with attorneys.
New legal documents seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, George Tenet, and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers for their alleged role in abuses...
CNN's senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has sharply criticized the legal action to bring war crimes charges against Rumsfeld and other top U.S. officials in a German court.
A complaint filed against Rumsfeld asking a German federal prosecutor to begin an investigation and eventually a criminal prosecution will inevitably tie him to allegations of U.S. warranted torture...
