“Guantanamo: Beyond the Law.” McClatchy Newspapers has today launched a series of articles lasting five days that the publisher describes as follows, “An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.” You can access the home page for the series at this link.

Today’s lead article for the debut of the series is headlined “America’s prison for terrorists often held the wrong men.” And today’s other articles are headlined “Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees” and “Studies differ on threat from Guantanamo detainees.”

“Habeas Ruling Lays Bare the Divide Among Justices”: Robert Barnes and Del Quentin Wilber have this article today in The Washington Post.

Today’s newspaper also contains an article headlined “Detainees May Be Denied Evidence for Defense” that begins, “When Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks seek to represent themselves in military commissions trials in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, they may be barred from reviewing highly classified evidence and might not have access to the intelligence agents who interrogated them, according to the Pentagon’s Office of Military Commissions.”

“Nothing is private”: The Seattle Times today contains an editorial that begins, “The roiling water in which Judge Alex Kozinski finds himself should be a lesson for every Internet user: Nothing is private.” According to the editorial, “Regardless of what the ethics panel concludes, Kozinski might well find his career cut short or future opportunities diminished because of revelations about his online image cache.”

And today in The Billings Gazette, columnist Ed Kemmick has an op-ed entitled “Judge’s acts both odd and interesting” that begins, “Alex Kozinski will be remembered as the man who took the prudence out of jurisprudence and put the barnyard back in barnyard humor.”