The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports that Congress is after Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Julie Meyers, secretary of DHS’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, for appalling medical conditions at immigration detention centers. Today, Chertoff and Meyers will meet with Senate majority leader Harry ...

There was always the fear that the military prosecution of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Al-Qahtani would be a show trial. But now the Pentagon has announced there will be no trial at all for Qahtani, who the Bush administration branded the “20th hijacker” for his alleged ...

The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein have part two in a series that started Sunday on detained U.S. immigrants. These immigrants are sent to obscure compounds run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm.

The 33,000 detainees look ...

The New York Times’ Eric Schmitt reports that the Pentagon has cancelled their assignment of Maj. Gen. Jay Hood to the top post at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. The reason is that Hood’s appointment has sparked protests in Pakistan due to ...

David Addington, the vice-president’s chief of staff, is often called the legal mind behind the Bush administration’s justification of expanded executive powers. Now Addington has been subpoenaed by a House judiciary subcommittee to speak about his role in legal decisions that led to the torture of detainees at ...

Of the 775 terrorist suspects detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, not one has been tried for a crime. The Washington Post’s Josh White reports that this trend will likely persist a “year or longer.”  It has ...

The New York Times’ Nina Bernstein reports that between 2004 and 2007, 66 detained immigrants died under custody of the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Unlike prisons, ICE detention centers, some of which are privately-owned, have no procedures for detainees to exchange information with the ...

Critics have long complained that top U.S. officials are not held accountable for charges of detainee abuse committed by soldiers. But the charges may have caught up with Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

The Wall Street Journal’s Yochi J. Dreazen reports that McChrystal’s promotion to director of ...

John Conyers, D-Mi. and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, keeps trying. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson reports that Conyers has threatened to subpoena John Ashcroft, John Yoo and David Addington if they won’t testify to the committee about White House torture policies.

Ashcroft and Yoo ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez and Siobhan Gorman follow-up on a story reported by the New York Times yesterday: the Justice Dept. is giving the CIA a lot of leeway in their interrogations of terrorist suspects. The Justice Dept. gave letters to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) ...