Judge urged to open CIA tapes inquiry
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A lawyer for a group of terrorism suspects held by the United States told a court on Friday that trusting the Justice Department with an inquiry into the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes would amount to putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
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A judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to explain whether the CIA violated a court order by destroying videotapes of the harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects.
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it had launched a criminal investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects.
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A federal judge said he was considering questioning C.I.A. officials who watched tapes, later destroyed, of harsh interrogations.
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CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told lawmakers privately last week that three White House lawyers were briefed in 2004 about the existence of videotapes showing the interrogation of two al-Qaeda figures, and they urged the agency to be "cautious" about destroying the tapes, according to sources...
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At 3 a.m. on Aug. 8, 1998, the day after the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the chief judge of a special court that supervises applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was awakened at home in order to approve five wiretaps, including one of Osama bin...
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Four media organizations asked a judge on Monday to hear arguments on overturning a media blackout in the cases of the suspects charged with plotting to bomb buildings in southern Ontario.
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A federal judge said he'd ask jurors to clarify their question about reasonable doubt Monday as deliberations continued in the trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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Justice Department employees involved in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Sept. 11 detainees must disclose whether they know of any government monitoring of conversations between the detainees and their attorneys, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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A Portuguese judge is to consider  whether the suspects in the Madeleine McCann case should see police files.
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The U.S. Justice Department will launch a criminal investigation of the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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The federal judge presiding over the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby ruled this morning that the public is entitled to hear audiotapes of Libby's testimony before the grand jury that investigated the 2003 leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity.
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A U.S. judge denied a request by a group of Guantanamo inmates to investigate the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes and said on Wednesday a Justice Department probe of the issue would be sufficient.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected demands from congressional leaders to share information about the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes. In a response letter, he reminded people that, "At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would...resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice."
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The judge in the court martial of three British soldiers accused of abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi detainees urged public figures on Thursday to avoid commenting on the case.
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A federal judge today refused to order a special review of the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying there was no evidence that the Bush administration defied court orders and that Justice Department prosecutors should be allowed to proceed with their own investigation into the ma...