John Timoney seems like a curious choice to advise security forces in the tiny but strategically important Middle Eastern country of Bahrain. An international commission has just criticized Bahrain's security forces for excessive use of force and widespread arbitrary arrests in suppressing largely peaceful "Arab spring" demonstrations there....

From 2004 through 2007, I represented six Bahraini detainees who were held at Guantanamo Bay. During that time, I informed the Bahraini government about abuses my clients said they suffered at the hands of the US government. Bahraini government officials, parliamentarians, and the media, rightly condemned this treatment outright. Not...

While it remains unclear whether the United States will create a commission of inquiry to investigate abuses committed after September 11, the process of reconciliation that might be one aspect of such a commission has actually already been started by a former Guantanamo detainee and a former Guantanamo guard.

Omar Khadr, one of the two Guantanamo detainees charged with crimes, was to be tried in a "military commission" on Monday. Instead, an Army judge ruled that the commission lacks jurisdiction over Khadr in light of the classification that Guantanamo authorities applied to Khadr years ago. Of course, this doesn't...