Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay Bybee , who signed off on memos detailing the legal rationale for enhanced interrogation techniques, has declined an invitation to testify ...
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The European Commission (EC) fined computer chip maker Intel Corp. 1.06 billion Wednesday for violating European Union antitrust laws and ordered Intel to cease engaging in the anti-competitive behaviors. The EC announced...
In the first hearing on whether Bush administration interrogation techniques constituted torture, one witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts on Wednesday called memos on enhanced interrogation methods "an ethical train wreck"...
Judge Gladys Kessler of the US District Court for the District of Columbia has released an opinion to accompany last week's order granting the habeas corpus petition of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...
US President Barack Obama has decided to seek a delay of the release of photographs depicting the allegedly abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, reversing an earlier decision, White House officials said Wednesday. Last month,...
Letter on the government's intention to appeal a ruling requiring the release of interrogation photos, US Department of Justice, May 13, 2009 [asserting the government's intention to seek an appeal to the court's earlier ruling requiring the release of 44...
What Went Wrong: Torture and the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Administration, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, May 13, 2009, . Read the full text of the materials. Reported...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held Monday that tort claims against a federally licensed gun maker and gun dealer stemming from a 1999 California shooting must be dismissed under a federal...
Secular Turkish judges have warned that amendments to the Turkish constitution proposed by the country's ruling Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) that would include restructuring the Constitutional Court ...
The New York State Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow same-sex marriages to be performed in the state. The legislation, which was introduced last month ...
