Former Enron Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to one or more criminal charges and a reduced prison sentence in exchange for his testimony against former bosses Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling . Causey, who was responsible for Enron's public accounting statements, faces [...]

CIA inspector general John Helgerson has launched an investigation into fewer than ten cases of possibly erroneous rendition , according to an intelligence official quoted by AP. In several cases it is believed that either the wrong person was captured, or the person later turned out to have no links to terrorism. The disclosed number [...]

US District Judge Ivan Lemelle Tuesday urged federal and state officials to work together and quickly set a date for the postponed New Orleans mayoral primary elections at a hearing of a lawsuit challenging the postponement of the primary. He said a vote would encourage a sense of normalcy, noting that although he did not [...]

On a brief visit to Iraq Tuesday US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter met with the chief judge overseeing the Saddam Hussein trial , telling reporters gathered in the trial chamber before the meeting that he had been "disappointed the way the court has permitted Saddam to dominate the proceedings." Saddam has several times [...]

The US State Department said Tuesday that Iraqi prisons are only “nominally” under control of the elected government in Baghdad, acknowledging that they are in practice run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry , which has not yet relinquished control of them. The central government, with help from US forces, is trying to take charge of [...]

The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) substantively modified 179 Bush administration wiretap requests made after 2001, after declining to modify a single request in 20 of the 21 years between 1979 and 1999, according to an analysis of Justice Department statistics reported Tuesday by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The FISC also rejected or modified at [...]

Turkish prosecutors launched an inquiry Tuesday into whether slander charges should be brought against a European Union lawmaker who made disparaging remarks about the Turkish army, an act criminalized by the revised Turkish penal code . Dutch legislator Joost Lagendijk , a senior member of the European Parliament and chairman of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary [...]

A Serbian security official said Tuesday that Serb police had intercepted a cell phone conversation involving Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic , the strongest lead police have thusfar developed in the search for the fugitive. Earlier reports of negotiations between Mladic and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia were [...]

Saddam Hussein has authorized three more lawyers to work with the four already representing him at his Baghdad trial for the 1982 massacre at Dujail that left as many as 143 Shiite Muslims dead. The defense team additions are: Saleh Armouti, president of the Jordanian Bar Association, one of 500 Jordanians who volunteered their services; [...]

The Federation Council , Russia's upper house of parliament, voted 152-1 Tuesday for a bill first approved by the lower house last month that greatly increases state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by implementing strict registration requirements, imposing financial oversight on their operations, and providing for dissolution if an organization participates in activities deemed to [...]