An institutional climate of "Islamophobia" and wariness among many U.S. Arabs and Muslims of the federal government are proving to be substantial barriers to recruiting Arabic speakers into the United States' counterterrorism agencies, observers say....
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to assassinate President George W. Bush, will remain in jail pending trial. That was the ruling yesterday by a federal magistrate in Alexandria, Virginia. And part of his reasoning may be found in a...
Amid charges that hundreds of whistleblower cases may have been arbitrarily dismissed, the U.S. Justice Department has admitted that it retroactively classified information that posed no threat to national security. According to the American Civil Liberties Union...
Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, is on a collision course with President George W. Bush over how much leeway should be given to intelligence agencies and law enforcement to wage their "war on terror." Feingold has introduced three bills to limit...
Even as defense attorneys were filing court papers charging that the U.S. government was hiding behind secret evidence, and demanding their client's release from a Saudi Arabian prison, Ahmed Abu Ali was being whisked back to the United States and charged with...
NEW YORK - Civil libertarians are wondering if the new U.S. attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, will continue one of the trademarks of his predecessor, John Ashcroft: razzle-dazzle news conferences announcing the arrests of terrorists, followed by trials in which no...
The U.S. Department of Justice may make legal history in seeking to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a U.S. citizen being held in Saudi Arabia without publicly disclosing its reasons, citing an "extraordinarily high" government interest in protecting national...
Controversial anti-immigration provisions that were stripped from an intelligence bill last year have resurfaced as the "Real ID Act," setting the stage for a partisan fight in Congress that could affect the cases of thousands of asylum-seekers. Authored by...
NEW YORK - The Justice Department has again asserted "state-secrets privilege" in seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was detained in the United States in 2002 and sent against his will to Syria, where he says he...
NEW YORK - Is the U.S. government spying on its citizens' e-mail and Web surfing habits? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a group that defends civil liberties on the Internet, believes the answer is probably "yes." Earlier this month, the San...
