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NEWS ABOUT: Jose Padilla

Jose Padilla stories: 7 news summaries

Terrorist Can Sue Over Torture Memos: Judge

Ruling on Padilla may open door against former Justice lawyer

Jun 13, 09 5:10 PM CDT
(AP) - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge who said he was trying to balance a clash between war and the defense of personal freedoms. The order by judge Jeffrey White of San... More »

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Jose Padilla • lawsuit • terrorist • John Yoo • torture memo

Obama Defends Bush 'Torture Memo' Author

Yoo case should be up to executive, Congress, Justice Dept argues

Mar 8, 09 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s Justice Department is defending a Bush official being sued over his interrogation memos, ABC News reports. Lawyers for Jose Padilla, who was sentenced to 17 years in jail for conspiring to support Islamist extremists, are arguing in court that John Yoo’s memos were behind Padilla’s... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Jose Padilla • lawsuit • John Yoo • George W. Bush • Obama administration • torture memo

Glossies

Torture a Dead End:
Intelligence Experts

Intelligence often false and comes at great cost to US reputation

Dec 21, 08 6:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Governments have known for centuries that torture yields questionable intelligence, and none of the evidence accumulated during US grilling sessions contradicts that argument, David Rose writes in Vanity Fair. Rose carefully documents the inaccurate and even falsified information obtained from suspects Abu Zubaydah, Binyam Mohamed, Jose Padilla, and Khalid Sheikh... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Jose Padilla • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • George W. Bush • Binyam Mohamed

Padilla Sentenced to 17 Years

Federal prosecutors will appeal for more prison time

Jan 22, 08 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge sentenced Jose Padilla to 17 years and 4 months today following his conviction for conspiring to commit murder and otherwise aid Islamic terrorists around the world, the Miami Herald reports. Although the court invoked “terrorism enhancement” to lengthen the sentences of Padilla and his two co-conspirators,... More »

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terrorism • Jose Padilla • Patriot Act • Islamic Jihad

Padilla Guilty of Aiding Terrorism

Dirty-bomb suspect faces life after 3-year detention

Aug 16, 07 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - A US District Court convicted Jose Padilla, a US citizen once suspected in a dirty-bomb plot, of conspiring to commit terrorism abroad by providing aid to Islamic extremists. Padilla, a former Guantanamo detainee who became symbolic of the Bush administration's aggressive legal arguments for detaining suspected terrorists, was not charged... More »

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terrorism • Jose Padilla • trial • Guantanamo Bay • conviction • conspiracy • terrorist • Islamic extremism • dirty bomb • Patriot Act • al-Qaeda

Padilla Terror Trial Targets Islam: Lawyer

Defense charges prosecutors play on jurors' post-9-11 fears

Aug 14, 07 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A lawyer for one of Jose Padilla's co-defendants accused prosecutors of turning the terror suspects' trial into a "US versus Islam" crusade to conceal a lack of evidence. Padilla, a US citizen, and two other men face charges of conspiring to murder and injure people in Afghanistan and Eastern... More »

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War on Terror • Islam • Jose Padilla • terror plots • counterterrorism • detainee • terrorist • dirty bomber • al-Qaeda

Padilla Jury Selection Begins

Judge rules that prosecutors can mention 9/11—but can't link Padilla directly

Apr 16, 07 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jury selection began today in the trial against accused terrorist Jose Padilla, with  Judge Marcia Cooke ruling that prosecutors may make references to the 9/11 attacks, but not suggest that Padilla and his co-defendants were linked to them. "Any idea, through inference or otherwise, that these defendants are connected... More »

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