Court Backs White House on Detainees
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A federal appeals court today upheld of a new law that strips federal courts of the authority to review the cases of foreign prisoners held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguing on Capitol Hill on the legal rights of detainees.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ruled lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners should have access to nearly all government evidence so they can challenge detainees' designation as "unlawful enemy combatants."
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The Bush administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in an effort to limit the information it must provide when Guantanamo Bay prisoners challenge their continued captivity.
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday against four British men who contend they were systematically tortured and their religious rights abused throughout their two-year detention at Guantanamo Bay.
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The United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan that would take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said Friday that it was not meant as an alternative to the detainee facility in Cuba.
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The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said Tuesday all detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions.
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President Bush is standing firm in his battle to get Congress to approve the White House plan for detaining, interrogating and prosecuting suspected terrorists. The Senate, though, isn't backing away from its plan either.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguments on Capitol Hill over the legal rights of detainees.
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The Administration falls in line with the Supreme Court on treatment of detainees. But questions remain about how and when the new standards will be applied
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The Bush administration today criticized the decision by military judges to dismiss war crimes charges against two men being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and defended the system of military commissions set up to try detainees at the facility.
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WASHINGTON -- The decision by US military judges Monday to dismiss the war crimes charges against two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has reignited a debate over how to try those accused of terrorism, prompting members of Congress to challenge the Bush administration over a legal system they say denies proper rights to detainees and has yet to bring ...
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In a sharp rebuke of President   George W. Bush's tactics in the war on terrorism, the U.S.   Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as illegal the military   tribunal system set up to try Guantanamo prisoners.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - The White House said on   Thursday that a deal reached with lawmakers on the treatment of   detainees would allow the CIA's questioning of foreign   terrorist suspects to continue.
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The Bush administration argued Monday that the president can detain enemy combatants at a military prison in Cuba as long as necessary to protect national security and that they have no constitutional rights to hear charges against them.
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The White House Wednesday backed Republican efforts to get one of President Bush's judicial nominees from Mississippi onto the federal appeals court. But some Democrats seemed ready to fight to keep Leslie Southwick off the bench.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees can use federal courts to challenge their confinement, reversing an April decision not to hear arguments on the issue.