Cheney urged NSA to wiretap domestic calls, emails without warrants: NYT
US Vice President Dick Cheney and his legal advisor and current chief of staff David S. Addington argued after Sept. 11 that the National Security Agency should listen in on domestic phone calls and emails...
Libby testimony on Bush authorization of Iraq intelligence leak [US DC]
Government summary of grand jury testimony by I. "Scooter" Libby, former Chief of Staff to US Vice President Dick Cheney on President Bush's 2003 authorization for Libby to disclose certain US intelligence information on Iraq's weapons program from a classified...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that repeated protestations from President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other US administration officials that "we do not torture" miss the point that the US...
Former State official says Cheney office encouraged detainee abuse
A former top US State Department official has charged that US Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff were responsible for directives leading to abuse of detainees by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Perjury, Lies and Degrading Treatment: The Case for the McCain Amendment
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says passing the McCain Amendment prohibiting coercive interrogation practices would be an important step forward towards re-establishing America's reputation for respecting the rule of law, and could open the...
