Omar Khadr, a 24-year old former child soldier detained at Guantanamo pled guilty Monday on terrorism-charges in order to avoid trial and a possible life sentence. Khadr would have been the first defendant to be tried by military commission.
In a letter to federal judge Lewis Kaplan on Sunday, the U.S. government announced that it would not appeal Kaplan’s ruling to disallow testimony from a witness against accused terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani who was first identified by Ghailani during interrogation in a secret CIA prison overseas. For more Amicus [...]
Check out this NYT op-ed by Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith, who argues that the Obama Administration should embrace the Bush Administration policy of military detention without charge or trial. Goldsmith is writing in response to a ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan [...]
The new term opened today and one of the Supreme Court’s first acts was to request that the Justice Department file a brief on behalf of the government giving its opinion on a case filed by Iraqis who say their relatives were tortured by contractors working at Abu Ghraib.
Which is more terrifying: the imminent threat of an attack on American soil or a steady but intangible loss of civil liberties in the name of national security? This lesser-of-two-evils debate will take center stage in the controversial “terror trials” of Guantanamo detainees that kicked off Wednesday in New York [...]
Digital environments are becoming the most important public spaces of the twenty-first century. These digital spaces are where many young people—and many older people, too—spend enormous amounts of time. These spaces are akin to the public parks, schoolyards, malls, and lecture halls of the physical world.1 These are places where [...]
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