Michael Isikoff

Chevron hires lobbyists to squeeze Ecuador in toxic-dumping case. What an Obama win could mean.

The attorney general warns that Gitmo prisoners could go free on U.S. streets. The Dems aren't buying it.

A federal judge's ruling last week threw a potential new curveball into the campaign debate over the War on Terror. Democratic appointed Judge James Robertson gave the Pentagon a green light to start the first-ever military-commission trial of a Gitmo detainee this week—that of Salim Hamdan, an alleged Qaeda member who served as Osama bin Laden's driver. (Robertson said that if defense lawyers see the trial as unfair, they can challenge the results later in federal court.) But the...

House Democrats were fuming recently when Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to show up at a House Judiciary Committee hearing into whether he meddled in Justice Department prosecutions.

An unusual new privilege claim shields Cheney in Plame probe.

The domestic spying measure approved by Congress last week will impose new rules on government wiretapping. But it will leave largely untouched what some experts say is the most sweeping part of the secret surveillance activities ordered by President Bush after 9/11: the National Security Agency's collection of phone records and other personal data on millions of U.S. citizens.

The civil liberties board goes dark under Bush.

How an undercover FBI informant busted an alleged terror ring.

The Bush administration now wants to watch you from the sky.

One of John McCain's most celebrated achievements in recent years was his crusade to block a Pentagon contract with Boeing for a new fleet of midair refueling tankers.

White House and Justice Department lawyers are bracing for a flood of new court battles as a result of last week's historic Supreme Court ruling, which granted Guantánamo Bay detainees the right to seek their freedom in federal court.

Buried in a Senate report, new revelations about pre-war deception

The 9/11 hearings at Guantánamo begin as a bizarre spectacle.

Inside the Gitmo arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

When Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison wanted state lawmakers to back a hefty rate hike two years ago, it took a creative lobbying approach, concocting a new outfit that seemed devoted to the public interest: Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity, or CORE.

A new Justice Department reports faults the CIA's handling of prisoner interrogation.

Is Iraqi double-dealer Ahmad Chalabi gone for good? Don't bet on it.

John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime.

Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants?

Telecoms and the Bush administration talked about how to keep their surveillance program under wraps.

During a Mideast trip earlier this month, FBI Director Robert Mueller made an unpublicized detour to Yemen in order to press an issue of serious concern to Washington: why has the Yemeni government refused to turn over an accused Qaeda terrorist charged in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S. sailors?

The trial of Chicago developer and political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko has been closely watched for any mention of the defendant's onetime friend, Barack Obama.

The feds accuse an octogenarian of informing for Israel.

A British court slams Bandar and the Brits.

How Bill's big-dollar foreign buckraking is causing headaches for Hillary's campaign.

Why can't the Brits deport a suspected terror figure?

With little advance notice, Pentagon general counsel William Haynes quietly resigned at the end of February to take a top legal job at Chevron. But Haynes, a close ally of Vice President Dick Cheney, remains a key figure in a sweeping Senate probe into allegations of abuses to detainees in Defense Department custody.Haynes was thrust back into the spotlight last week after the disclosure of a March 2003 Justice Department memo concluding that federal laws against torture, assault and...

Is Al Qaeda recruiting Westerners to get past U.S. security?

How dangerous is Al Qaeda's latest tape?

They show terror plots, but raise new questions about some U.S. claims.