Obama administration lawyers divided over legality of US operations in Libya
US President Barack Obama overrode the legal interpretations of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel in maintaining the administration's position that US forces operating in Libya did not violate...
Rights groups ask Spain court to open probe into Bush-era 'torture'
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a joint expert opinion Tuesday urging a Spanish court to open an investigation into six former Bush administration...
Nigeria filing bribery charges against Cheney in connection with Halliburton contract
Nigerian prosecutors announced Thursday that they are instituting bribery charges against former US vice president Dick Cheney in connection in with a contract that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) [corporate...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston says recent evidence shows that the US has enabled certain Nazi war criminals to avoid prosecution, but that it is incumbent upon the government to end such impunity by actively...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says the question of whether the government can criminally prosecute an attorney for representing a client said by the executive to...
Second Circuit rules CIA did not infringe ex-agent Plame's free speech rights
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did not violate the free speech rights of former agent Valerie Plame when...
Federal judge orders DOJ to release Cheney CIA leak interview documents
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ordered the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to release some files from its interview with former...
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. US Department of Justice, US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 2, 2009 [ordering the US Department of Justice to release some files from its interview with former vice president...
Former CIA directors urge Obama to suspend interrogation probe
Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sent a letter to President Barack Obama Friday urging him to suspend Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse by CIA...
Obama administration secrecy policies improved over predecessor: report
The administration of US President Barack Obama has improved government transparency over the Bush administration, but there is more that should be done, according a report released Tuesday OpenTheGovernment.org , a...
