Washington may rethink terror cases after mistrial: experts
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The U.S. government's failure this week to win a conviction in a major case of alleged terrorism financing is a sign it may be targeting the wrong suspects and needs to rethink its prosecution strategy, legal experts say.
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WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department said yesterday that it will ask two judges to reconsider their decisions from earlier this week that stalled the military's attempt to put detainees at Guantanamo Bay on trial.
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday   challenged President George W. Bush's plan to try terrorism   suspects including the accused September 11 mastermind, as   Democrats accused the White House of election-year   fearmongering.
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Departing Attorney General John Ashcroft, dealt several court defeats over US anti-terrorism policies, on Friday derided what he called judges&#39; second-guessing of the president&#39;s decisions.
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ARGUMENTS: The Bush administration told the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review that discrepancies between the nation's new terrorism law and the way it is being carried out should not stall one of the Pentagon's first terror trials.
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A top White House aide's guilty verdict in an investigation tied to the Iraq war is likely to haunt President George W. Bush for the rest of his term, experts say.
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In a rebuke of President George W.  Bush, a U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday  rejected his plan for interrogating foreign terrorist suspects.  The bill, however, will still go to the full House for  consideration.
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Two Republican senators said Sunday that Congress must rein in the Supreme Court ruling that international law applies to the Bush administration&#039;s conduct in the war on terror.
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The Bush administration faced pressure on Tuesday to overhaul how it brings foreign terrorism suspects to trial after the surprise dismissal of war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Seeking to quell an uprising over   its legislation on the treatment of foreign terrorism suspects,   the White House on Monday offered a revised plan to three   Republican senators who charge that its bill would subject   suspects to abusive interrogations and unfair trials.
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The case of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Britain's biggest terrorist outrage that killed 270 people, could be reopened as it emerged that his conviction was based on unreliable evidence.
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A U.S. judge declared mistrials on Thursday for six men accused of plotting to wage war against the United States and blow up Chicago's Sears Tower after a jury acquitted one defendant but could not decide on verdicts for the others.
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Nearly six and a half years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. is preparing to prosecute six of the men it says are responsible. But the trial and verdicts Â not to mention justice Â remain a long way off in the death-penalty cases.
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ALBANY, NY Aug. 18, 2004  A key piece of evidence against a jailed mosque leader accused of supporting terrorism has come into question, with federal prosecutors acknowledging that a note found in a terrorist camp may have been mistranslated.
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The Government is considering a raft of sweeping new anti-terrorism laws including special courts to try terror suspects without a jury, Home Secretary David Blunkett said in an interview.
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A federal judge expressed skepticism yesterday that he should order a special judicial probe into whether the Bush administration could have destroyed evidence related to suspected enemy fighters at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, because of the CIA's recent acknowledgment that it...
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday   challenged President George W. Bush's plan to try terrorism   suspects, including the accused September 11 mastermind, as   Democrats charged the White House with election-year   fearmongering.