Thirteen years after the USS Cole was bombed by an approaching vessel in the Yemen port of Aden, a military commission in Guantanamo Bay is trying to figure out if the act constituted "terrorism" and if "terrorism" is a crime that can be charged in a military commission....

Does an accused man have the right to hear classified evidence he already knows, when it's directly relevant to whether he'll be put to death?

Not in a U.S. military commission, according to the government. Prosecutors argued Wednesday that Guantanamo detainee Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri,

Back in 2000, nearly a year before al Qaeda became a declared U.S. enemy and household word, a Navy guided-missile destroyer called the U.S.S. Cole was bombed while refueling in the Yemen port of Aden. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 39 injured. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.

Thirteen years...

The CIA didn't know who it was killing about 25 percent of the time it targeted suspects with drones, NBC News reports. Still, the government insists, all of those unknown people definitely deserved to die. According to classified CIA documents, only one of about 600 people the CIA...

It was late last Friday afternoon when Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, also known as "Spin Ghul", was led into an imposing federal courtroom in Brooklyn for his first public court appearance. A slight 43-year-old Nigerian man, he was seated across from his assigned lawyer.

As Judge Edward Korman...

On Tuesday afternoon, Senator Dick Durbin will chair a long-awaited Congressional hearing on the Obama drone war.

Although we've heard plenty of speeches in the past couple of years from Obama administration officials acknowledging that the United States uses armed drones to bomb suspected terrorists overseas, we've received...

More than 11 years after Shaker Aamer was first seized from Afghanistan and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, the now 47-year-old lawful British resident remains stuck in the U.S. prison. He's never been charged with a crime. He's never met his 11-year-old son.

In fact, Aamer has twice been...

Once again, this time timed with Secretary of State John Kerry's unannounced visit, the United States has officially handed over the keys to the Bagram detention center to the Afghans. Only just as with the previous agreement to do exactly the same thing, the U.S. military will actually not be...

"In the months ahead, I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world."...

If observers hoped that the parade of officers testifying in the 9/11 hearings this past week was going to redeem the Guantanamo military commissions, they were sorely disappointed.

Pre-trial hearings in the case of the five alleged plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks continued at Guantanamo Bay from...

Questions about monitoring of privileged attorney-client communications continued to swirl around the pre-trial hearings taking place at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday.

Whether government officials have eavesdropped on privileged attorney-client communications as defense lawyers prepared their case for trial has dominated the last few days of hearings in...

Testimony from the special 9/11 courtroom at Guantanamo Bay this morning confirmed what defense lawyers have been complaining about for weeks now: The 32 microphones in the courtroom are sensitive enough to pick up lawyers' conversations with their clients or co-counsel, even if they've muted their own mics....

The problems of holding the trial of the alleged masterminds of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba were on stark display again at Monday's hearing, as defense lawyers argued the proceedings should be delayed once again so they can determine who may be...

It would almost be funny if it weren't so sad. Four days of military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay this past week yielded little more than confusion about the law and heightened suspicion of the U.S. government. Any steps toward bringing to justice the five co-defendants accused of the murder...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer on Thursday morning asked the military commission judge presiding over the trial of the five accused masterminds of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to halt all court proceedings until the court could determine who might be listening in on defense lawyers' conversations.

"Until this...

Should defense lawyers in the September 11 terrorism case be allowed to visit the secret camp where their clients are imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay? And if so, how much access to the prison is enough?

Late Tuesday morning defense lawyers at the Guantanamo military commission hearing the 9/11 case insisted...

A military commission judge's attempt to explain Tuesday morning why the 9/11 pre-trial hearing being held at Guantanamo Bay was briefly blacked out from observers on Monday has only caused more confusion.

Beginning the hearing of the five alleged September 11 co-conspirators, Judge James Pohl said a "security...

It was another chaotic day at the Guantanamo military commissions.

When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer started talking this afternoon about his request for information pertaining to his client's case, someone -- it's not clear who -- hit the censor button. The audio feed turned to static. About a minute later,...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators have asked the government to preserve the notorious "black sites" where U.S. agents tortured detainees after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Their lawyers will argue in hearings at Guantanamo Bay next week that this evidence is critical to their ability...

The judge presiding over the trial of the five co-defendants accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has said he won't decide whether the U.S. Constitution applies to the case. The opinion, which was originally withheld from the public, is now available here.

Defense lawyers had...