Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encouraged the US on Friday to lead the world in advancing human rights in a speech at George Washington University, and criticized the Bush administration for deciding not to seek a position to the new UN Human Rights Council . Annan noted that the first members of the Human Rights Council [...]

JURIST , the non-commercial legal news and research service powered by law students led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , is in a dead heat with US legal television network Court TV in the final hours of public polling for the annual Webby Awards "People's Voice" award for [...]

US Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a report by the Law Library of Congress on Friday showing that several countries have harsher policies for illegal immigrants and their employers than the US. Sensenbrenner, the primary sponsor of a House-passed immigration bill that has sparked protests across the country, [...]

Michael J. Kelly : "With Porter Goss's resignation as CIA director, President Bush is presented with an opportunity to make real and lasting changes to a broken intelligence system. The cosmetic changes of two years ago (putting John Negroponte into a newly independent oversight post of Director of National Intelligence and blurring some of the [...]

John Allen Muhammad , representing himself, began questioning witnesses Friday in his second trial involving the three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. Jury selection in the trial began on Monday . In his opening statement, Muhammad portrayed himself as a distraught father who was in Maryland to search for his children, [...]

US Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards on Friday criticized new Bush administration rules that make it easier for law enforcement officials to wiretap Internet phone calls during arguments in front of the federal appeals court in Washington, DC. The Federal Communications Commission created the new rules last year, which mandate standards to allow wiretaps of [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke was dropped from Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet in a major cabinet shuffle Friday and was replaced by John Reid , who formerly served as Defence Secretary. The shuffle, which also saw UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw replaced by Margaret Beckett , followed poor local election results for the Labour [...]

A Russian jury on Friday acquitted two Chechens in the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov , who was the editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition when he was shot and killed in 2004. Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhayev, charged with shooting Klebnikov, were acquitted after eight jurors voted in favor of the verdict. Four [...]

AP is reporting that Porter Goss , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has resigned. Goss, a former CIA and Army intelligence officer who chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence while a member of Congress, was nominated and approved by the Senate to head the CIA in 2004. During Goss' tenure as [...]