The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists as it struggles to determine the fate of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and fulfil a pledge to close the prison by January.

AFTER last week’s Council of Europe report cited Ireland as colluding in the rendition process, the Taoiseach demanded the authors produce evidence of these allegations.

A two-storey maximum security jail modelled on a US prison is being built in Cuba, exactly four years after the first terror suspects were placed in makeshift cells in Guantanamo.

WHEN Jack Nicholson’s irascible commanding officer lost the head with Tom Cruise’s persistent lawyer character in A Few Good Men, he roared across an echoing courtroom: “You can’t handle the truth,” and a legendary cinematic one-liner was born.