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Military officials have determined that official transcripts of military commissions held for key terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay must be treated as "top secret," even when members of the public, the press and victims' families have ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s lawyers filed a motion with a federal appeals court Sunday, seeking to win him a place on the Republican presidential primary ballot in Virginia even though his campaign failed to gather the 10,000 signatures required by s...

An Army lawyer assigned to consider evidence that Pfc. Bradley Manning leaked thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks has concluded that Manning should face a court martial on the charges, the Army announced Thursday. Lt. Col....

President Barack Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, is going after the Republican National Committee for endorsing the idea of direct corporate donations to candidates and national political parties. In a video announcing 4th quarter fundrai...

The U.S. military's highest appeals court has rejected a petition by WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange to give their lawyers guaranteed access to the Army's legal proceedings against the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking thous...

The head of the team of military lawyers defending Guantanamo prisoners has instructed his attorneys to refuse to comply with new policies requiring outside review of their written communications with their clients held at the base, including the priso...

The century-old ban on corporate donations to federal political campaigns should be junked as unconstitutional, the Republican National Committee argued in a legal brief filed Tuesday that could lead to new attacks on the GOP as beholden to corporate m...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was wrong to categorically withhold all records of a corruption probe of Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Acting in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the watchdog gro...

News coverage of Pfc. Bradley Manning's legal hearing last month on charges of being a key source for WikiLeaks was generally “negative” but “balanced and factual,” according to daily summaries of the proceedings prepared by...

The Obama Administration has quietly thrown in the towel in a long-running battle to prevent disclosure of internal legal memos about its plans to force local law enforcement agencies to participate in the controversial immigration-enforcement system k...

A judge's ruling barring two witnesses from testifying against a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking secrets essentially destroyed the government's ability to proceed with the case, prosecutors said in a court filing t...

During Pfc. Bradley Manning's legal hearing last month, many observers thought the proceedings seemed scripted. It turns out that, at least in part, they were. POLITICO has obtained the script, which extends to 18 pages, including various addenda ...