The Obama administration’s decision to use a military tribunal rather than a federal criminal court to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others means the real motives behind the 9/11 attacks may remain obscure. The Likud Lobby and their allied U.S. legislators can chalk up a significant victory for [...]

Threatening the Presumption of Innocence Liberty versus security, that initial heated debate over the war on terror, is again rearing its head with much bravado, nowhere more so than in our nation’s courtrooms where American justice continues to pay the price. Over the course of the past nine years, in the name of [...]

versión en español abajo by Ray McGovern November 15, 2009 Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concern that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda. “I think that we’re going to shine a light on something that a lot of [...]

by Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz and Britta Sandberg September 21, 2009 Part 1: Prisoner Abuse Continues at Bagram Prison in Afghanistan US President Barack Obama has spoken out against CIA prisoner abuse and wants to close Guantanamo. But he tolerates the existence of Bagram military prison in Afghanistan, where more than 600 people are being held without charge. [...]

by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane August 24, 2009 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. named a veteran federal prosecutor on Monday to examine abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency, after the Justice Department released a long-secret report showing interrogators choked a prisoner repeatedly and threatened to kill another detainee’s children.