Topic: American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders have struck a deal to extend key anti-terrorism surveillance tactics for four years, a senior Democratic aide said on Thursday, a move that would avoid a potentially contentious fight over the tactics.The three tactics, initially approved by ...
From indefinite detention of terror suspects, to closed military commissions, low transparency, and targeted drone hits: Barack Obama's administration and its security stands have raised eyebrows of many of those to his own left.Indeed, some fear he is following in the footsteps ...
Graham says he'll press his GOP colleagues to back Guantanamo closing if Obama backs tribunals A Republican senator is offering the White House a deal on terror trials.Graham, interviewed Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," says reversing Attorney General Eric Holder's plan ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is creating impunity for senior officials of former President George W. Bush accused of authorizing torture, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday.As Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, ...
Judge keeps secret portions of detainee interrogation documents that may describe abuseA federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and abuse.The ...
President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday made it more difficult for the government to suppress information on security grounds, amid allegations the power was used to cover up Bush-era excess.Attorney General Eric Holder announced that from today he would personally review claims ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and two suspected fellow plotters refused Monday to attend a Guantanamo military court hearing.Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, all suspected orchestrators of the attacks eight years ago that ...
Justice Dept delays release of CIA report on detention, interrogation program until late AugThe Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public, ...
ACLU says terrorism finance laws have created fear among Muslims over charitable givingFederal laws targeting the financing of terrorism give the government unchecked power over U.S. Muslim charities and have made Muslims fearful about giving to charity as required by their faith, ...
The US Defense Department has strongly rejected a report in The Daily Telegraph that alleged photographs of abuse at Iraqi prisons include images of rape and sexual assault.The Telegraph alleged the photos were among hundreds related to investigations of prisoner abuse that ...
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