One of the darkest eras in the history of the American system of jurisprudence finally has resulted in something that looks like justice.

A military tribunal last week acquitted Salim Hamdan, who was a driver for Osama Bin Laden, of conspiracy…

The first video footage of an interrogation of a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay military prison was made public by the Canadian lawyers for Omar Khadr.

Khadr was captured in Afghanistan 2002 at the age of 15.

The interrogation was conducted by the…

My column today pulls together and reflects on last week’s three major developments in America’s ongoing effort to understand how the Bush administration came to approve and use abusive interrogation techniques on prisoners — something that violates every principle of…

By a bare 5 to 4 majority last week, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed what should have been obvious:

• No president is above the law, especially when it comes to depriving people of their liberty.

• No prisoner may be…

The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as  a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…

WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a convention of newspaper executives here today that her election to the White House would restore the power and the promise of the U.S. presidency.

The Democratic senator from New York said that…