The Washington Post's Peter Finn reports that a military judge has ruled that a defense lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee Ramzi Binalshibh may visit Binalshibh's notorious and hitherto secretive Camp 7 location. Camp 7 is said to hold 14 "high-value" ...

The Washington Post’s Josh White follows up on the 370-page report released yesterday by the Justice Dept.’s Inspector General on FBI objections to Pentagon and CIA detainee interrogation techniques. The reports shows officials such as career Justice Dept. lawyer Bruce Schwartz insisting in 2003 that ...

A Justice Dept. audit released yesterday shows that widespread complaints by FBI officials in 2003 over military and CIA interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay went ignored. Nearly half of the 450 FBI agents that the Justice Dept. inspector genral interviewed who worked at Guantanamo Bay said they personally witnessed brutal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Persistent inquiries by the Senate Judiciary Committee have prompted the Justice Dept. to turn over documents on the CIA’s interrogation strategies. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson reports that limited, though unredacted memos by Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel will be sent to interested members of Congress.

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 ...