Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak on Wednesday revealed that Karl Rove , President Bush's top political advisor, was one of two secondary sources who confirmed that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was employed by the CIA and helped initiate the ambassador's 2002 mission to Niger. It was Novak's July 2003 column that [...]

Sir Richard Dearlove , former head of the British intelligence agency known as MI6 , has said that two components of the US war on terrorism would be illegal under British law. Dearlove, who led the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1999 to 2004 and is now master of Pembroke College, Cambridge , said the [...]

William Haynes , the Pentagon general counsel nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , struggled to defend defense policies Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing , drawing bipartisan questions relating to coercive interrogation techniques employed by the military in questioning terrorism suspects. Haynes helped draft the Defense Department's detention and [...]

US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , told reporters Tuesday that the Defense Department has been too lenient in its policies on custody of terror suspects, questioning the release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay . Hunter's comments came ahead of a scheduled Wednesday committee hearing on standards for [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and co-author of amicus briefs in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Guantanamo detainee litigation, says that although Hamdan directly addressed only the handful of cases in which the administration has charged individuals before military [...]

European Commission antitrust regulators imposed a $357 million fine on Microsoft Wednesday for not complying with a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling . Early in July, the EC approved in principle new fines against Microsoft, after it warned last December that Microsoft may face fines of up to $2.5 million per day for not giving [...]

Eloise Pepion Cobell et al. v. Dirk Kempthorne et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process, US Senate Judiciary Committee, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of witnesses' prepared statements. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Geoffrey Corn : "Today it was reported that the Department of Defense has officially acknowledged that Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda. In fact, the Memorandum issued by Gordon England specifically directs the military departments to ensure that all Department of Defense (DOD) personnel adhere to [...]

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed that US District Judge Royce Lamberth , the outspoken jurist presiding over the 10-year old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American Indian money by the US Department of the Interior , be removed from the proceeding. A three-judge panel agreed with US Department [...]