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How the government comes up with and maintains the FBI’s notorious Terrorism Watch List has been a thorn in the side of civil libertarians for years. The names on the list are so secret that the people on it often have no way of knowing their status as a suspected terrorists, or a person with links to suspected terrorists. An exclusive report in today's New York Times details how people wind up on the list, and how difficult it is to be removed from the list after charges have been dropped.

While President Obama has received much criticism for failing to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in the first year of his presidency, new classified documents released by WikiLeaks reveal the attempted dealings between the administration and other governments to try and move detainees out of the detention center. In an article in The New York Times, reporter Charlie Savage details attempted deals with Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lithuania and Albania, among other countries.

Currently 174 inmates remain at the facility: a third of them are from Yemen.

In recent weeks President Obama has come under fire from civil libertarians for reports that his administration is drafting plans to detail terrorism suspects indefinitely. Charlie Savage of the New York Times takes a look at how much power the President claims he has and how that compares to his ...

On the campaign trail Barack Obama was extremely critical of the Bush Administration's expansive view of executive power, but has any of that changed now that he is President? We'll talk to New York Times reporter Charlie Savage about how President Obama is dealing with the extraordinary powers the previous ...

Boston Globe reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Charlie Savage describes the power struggle between the Bush administration and the legislative branches of government in Takeover. Mr. Savage argues that since President Bush assumed the Presidency in 2001, he, along with Vice President Cheney and White House attorneys, have enlarged the role ...