A military jury imposed a sentence of 26 years on a former Maryland man who admitted joining al-Qaida and has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
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Read More »October 29, 2021 Comments Off on Ex-Maryland man who joined al-Qaida sentenced at Guantanamo
A military jury imposed a sentence of 26 years on a former Maryland man who admitted joining al-Qaida and has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
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Read More »December 3, 2015 Comments Off on Jack L.B. Gohn: Losing the rule of law, memorandum by memorandum
It was disheartening, in a deep-down, bone-wearying sort of way, to read the recent report in the New York Times of how four top federal lawyers drafted secret memoranda of law to President Barack Obama to justify the 2011 raid ...
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Read More »May 13, 2014 Comments Off on Scorn, icy stares follow terror suspects’ lawyers
For the small band of lawyers who defend the most despised terrorism suspects — the ones accused of hatching al-Qaida plots to kill Americans around the world — it can highly uncomfortable life they chose.
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Read More »December 26, 2013 Comments Off on Rockville man abducted in Pakistan calls for U.S. help
A 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by al-Qaida more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released Thursday to negotiate his release, saying he feels "totally abandoned and forgotten."
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Read More »July 30, 2013 Comments Off on Manning verdict could test notion of aiding enemy
FORT MEADE — It’s judgment day for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with aiding the enemy for giving troves of U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks. The military judge hearing the court-martial for the former intelligence analyst was expected ...
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Read More »July 19, 2012 Comments Off on Lawyers argue over harm in military WikiLeaks case
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history wants to be able to defend himself at trial by arguing in part that the leaks didn’t do much harm. Military prosecutors say ...
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Read More »June 28, 2012 Comments Off on In-House Interrogatory
This week is all about rumors and secrets. Asked: Our weekly question to the In-House community The former general counsel of the National Security Agency talked leaks with NPR recently. Joel Brenner talked to the news organization about the recent ...
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Read More »June 7, 2012 Comments Off on Witnesses discuss State Deptartment’s WikiLeaks response
FORT MEADE — The U.S. State Department took extraordinary steps to limit harm to foreign relations and individuals after an Army private allegedly sent more than 250,000 classified diplomatic cables to the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks, two agency officials testified at ...
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Read More »February 29, 2012 Comments Off on Former Maryland man pleads guilty to aiding al-Qaida in attack plots
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A former Maryland resident pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping al-Qaida plot attacks from his native Pakistan, reaching a plea deal with the U.S. government that limits his sentence but that his lawyers say could ...
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Read More »September 8, 2011 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Living in the shadows of 9/11
It’s one of those moments when you remember where you were. You remember, in this case, when life as we thought we knew it changed profoundly. I was waiting for an elevator in the lobby of The Sun, my former ...
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