A military judge on Thursday barred a Pentagon official from taking part in a second war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay, providing more ammunition for detainee lawyers who allege that political interference taints the proceedings.
The ruling will fuel defense challenges in other trials at the U.S. Navy base, where a former chief prosecutor and defense lawyers have accused Air Force Brig Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser to the tribunals, of demanding that certain cases be pursued over others based on political considerations.
President Donald Trump's administration exceeded the scope of an 18th-century wartime law in using it to deport some...
Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the...
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student who was detained for his activism,...
