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Search Results for: 2006-01-19

Legal authorities for NSA activities [US DOJ]

January 19, 2006 10:47:00 PM

Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President, US Department of Justice, January 19, 2006 [white paper saying that the NSA activities are supported by the president's position as Commander in Chief and congressional...

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Iraqi elections report [IMIE]

January 19, 2006 09:09:00 PM

Final Assessment Report, International Mission for Iraqi Elections, January 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's...

January 19, 2006 08:14:00 PM

The US Justice Department Thursday released a 42-page white paper laying out a legal basis for the domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency...

January 19, 2006 05:23:00 PM

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Maine has became the first state in the US to require manufacturers to pay the cost of recycling computer monitors and televisions under a program that began Wednesday pursuant to Maine's...

January 19, 2006 03:58:00 PM

US Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced during a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center Thursday that he intends to vote against the nomination of Samuel Alito to...

January 19, 2006 03:28:00 PM

Carla Del Ponte Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Thursday that former Serbian general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is still...

January 19, 2006 11:09:00 AM

The non-partisan Congressional Research Service , the public-policy research arm of the Library of Congress , called the Bush administration's limited briefings on the NSA domestic spying program "inconsistent with the law" in a...

January 18, 2006 12:38:00 PM

Russia is considering a request by former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic that he travel to that country for medical treatment, the Russian foreign ministry announced Wednesday. In December, Milosevic asked the judges...

January 13, 2006 02:59:00 PM

Turkey's Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek said Friday that Mehmet Ali Agca , the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may have mistakenly been released from prison eleven months early for the...

January 13, 2006 08:23:00 AM

In the second day of pre-trial hearings for Canadian teenager Omar Khadr before a Guantanamo Bay military commission Thursday, presiding officer Col. Robert Chester said that Khadr's civilian lawyers could begin "making preliminary inquiries"...

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