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Monday, December 10, 2007 :The Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have launched a joint probe into the CIA's destruction of at least two videotapes documenting prisoner interrogations at a secret CIA prison. One of the tapes may have shown CIA agents waterboarding the Al Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah....

Monday, December 10, 2007 :The revelation last week that the CIA deliberately destroyed videotapes involving the interrogation and torture of at least two prisoners has thrown further light on the criminality of the Bush administration. The CIA has been caught red-handed in obstruction of justice in destroying incriminating evidence and lying to the courts and the 9/11 Commission....

Thursday, December 6, 2007 :On Wednesday, attorneys for prisoners at Guantanamo called on the Supreme Court to restore the Constitution and grant the prisoners habeas corpus -- the right to challenge their imprisonment before a judge. "All have been confined at Guantanamo for almost 6 years yet not one has had meaningful notice of the factual grounds of their detention," said former Solicitor General Seth Waxman in his oral arguments....

Thursday, December 6, 2007 :As the Supreme Court hears arguments to determine whether prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay should have the right to challenge their indefinite detention in US courts, fresh evidence has emerged of the brutal conditions at the gulag. A military official confirmed this week that a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay attempted to kill himself in early November by slicing his throat with a sharpened fingernail....

Tuesday, December 4, 2007 :The identity of witnesses who will testify against a Guantánamo detainee next year will be kept secret, a military judge ordered October 15. The decision, which was not disclosed to the public at the time it was issued, gives further license for the illegal detentions and drumhead military courts at the prison....

Monday, November 26, 2007 : Just over a week ago, a major operating manual for the US military's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was leaked and posted on the Internet. Among other disclosures, it reveals that isolation and sensory deprivation of prisoners was official Army policy. We take a look at how this affects the debate within the American Psychological Association and the participation of its members in interrogations....

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955, titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. The full text is available at www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=110-1955. It was passed with 404 votes in favor....

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 :Should the United States, seeking to recalibrate the balance between security and liberty in the "war on terror," emulate Israel in its treatment of Palestinian detainees? That is the position that Guantanamo detainee lawyers Avi Stadler and John Chandler of Atlanta, and some others, have advocated. That people in US custody could be held incommunicado for years without charges, and could be prosecuted or indefinitely detained on the basis of confessions extracted w...

Britain's first Muslim minister, Shahid Malik, says he is "deeply disappointed" that he was detained by airport security officials in America....

Thursday, October 18, 2007 : The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee appears set to back Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey following his first day of confirmation hearings. On Wednesday Mukasey defended many of President Bush”s most controversial post 9/11 policies, including holding prisoners without charge and denying them habeus corpus. We get reaction from Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights....