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Judge orders Afghan teen home after years at Guantanamo
A young Guantanamo detainee appears likely to be sent home by late August after a federal judge concluded Thursday that he'd been held illegally and ordered him released after almost seven years. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said she wanted him on his way home by Aug. 21. | 07/30/09 16:16:00 By - Marisa Taylor
U.S. says it's willing to send young Afghan detainee home
The Obama administration on Wednesday said it plans to release Mohammed Jawad after military and civilian judges banned almost all evidence against him that they ruled was extracted through torture. Government attorneys, however, reserved the right to file new charges in federal court against Mohammed Jawad if they find evidence against him in the next three weeks, he time needed to set him free. | 07/29/09 17:58:04 By - Marisa Taylor
Why are U.S.-allied refugees still branded as 'terrorists?'
Almost every day for three years, prison guards at one of Saddam Hussein's most notorious prisons tortured Sami Alkarim. Now, in a cruel twist of fate, the accomplished Iraqi artist is being treated like a terrorist by the U.S., the country where he sought refuge. | 07/26/09 06:00:00 By - Marisa Taylor
U.S. admits it has no case against teen held at Guantanamo
The Justice Department conceded Friday that it lacks the evidence to hold a teenage Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant after a federal judge last week ruled that his confession was inadmissible. The Afghan government said Mohammed Jawad was 12 years old when he was seized by U.S. troops. | 07/24/09 19:47:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Amid problems, DEA picks new boss for flight division
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago office is taking over the agency's troubled aviation division, following allegations of mismanagement and waste at the operation, based in Fort Worth, Texas. | 07/24/09 15:59:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Groups grow impatient with Obama on fate of detainees
Six months after President Barack Obama ordered the closing of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his administration is still slogging through the cases and policies and will need more time to complete interim reports due on Tuesday. Senior White House advisers said they're making progress, but critics were skeptical. | 07/20/09 20:50:00 By - Steven Thomma and Marisa Taylor
Sotomayor pledges to apply — not make — the law
Sonia Sotomayor told her up-from-the-bootstraps story Monday to the Senate Judiciary Committee and vowed that a judge's role is "not to make law. It is to apply the law." Skeptical Republicans warned, however, that they'll ask tough questions beginning Tuesday about her background and activism. | 07/13/09 10:45:00 By - David Lightman and Marisa Taylor
Sotomayor, tough-minded yet true to her roots, defies simple labeling
Sonia Sotomayor is a groundbreaking nominee for the Supreme Court who defies easy pigeonholing. She's a tough-minded former prosecutor who's denounced the death penalty. She's a product of South Bronx public housing who excelled in the Ivy League. She's fiercely proud of her Latino heritage but has both challenged and embraced racial discrimination claims. Starting Monday, her confirmation hearing will give lawmakers and the world a crack at the question: Just who is Sonia Sotomayor? | 07/12/09 06:00:00 By - Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor
Report: Effectiveness of Bush wiretap program in dispute
Despite the Bush administration's insistence that its warrantless eavesdropping program was necessary to protect the country from another terrorist attack, FBI agents, CIA analysts and other officials had difficulty evaluating its effectiveness, according to an unclassified government report made public Friday. | 07/10/09 19:59:00 By - Marisa Taylor
DEA reassigns pilot over refusal to go to Afghanistan
The Drug Enforcement Administration has removed an agent from his pilot duties after he refused to be sent to Afghanistan on a 60 day-detail. | 07/09/09 18:01:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan
As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend that they're being illegally forced to go to a combat zone, while others who've volunteered say they're not being properly equipped. | 06/21/09 06:00:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Sotomayor's take-no-guff demeanor could alter court dynamics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor can be blunt, aggressive and impatient. So get ready for another public debate, and probably some insinuations, about her judicial temperament. Twenty-two years ago, Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination foundered in part over similar questions. Sotomayor's nomination resurrects the phrase but now it's packed with different meaning. | 05/27/09 18:15:00 By - Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor
Next Supreme Court's docket much broader than abortion
There's new legal terrain for the Supreme Court to explore that goes well beyond Roe v. Wade and the evergreen issues that line the campaign trail. Some pending disputes already are known, including the 14 cases that are scheduled for Supreme Court consideration starting next October. None involves abortion, the traditional flash point for recent Supreme Court confirmation fights. | 05/22/09 16:17:00 By - Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor
Obama's proposed Guantanamo legal plan rife with problems
President Barack Obama raised more questions than he answered Thursday about the legal prospects for Guantanamo Bay detainees. While politicians have been most concerned that detainees there not be transferred to prisons in the United States, the real legal quandary is about how to form new military commissions or detain terrorism suspects indefinitely without violating U.S or international laws. | 05/21/09 18:16:00 By - Marisa Taylor and Michael Doyle
Obama set to outline Gitmo strategy amid rising worries
President Obama on Thursday will lay out a defense of his national security policies and assure Americans he won't let terrorists loose in the U.S. as he looks to ease fears about closing the detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next January. | 05/20/09 19:02:00 By - Margaret Talev, David Lightman and Marisa Taylor
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