US DOJ Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicated in court documents Friday that his investigation into the CIA leak case will return to a grand jury. Three weeks ago, a previous grand jury indicted former Vice President Dick Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice . In [...]

The US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicated Friday that all 125 workers arrested at a Wal-Mart distribution center construction site in Pennsylvania Thursday will be deported. Some of the workers, mostly from Mexico and Central America, used false documents to get jobs with a Wal-Mart subcontractor. Federal officials said the arrests should [...]

The Pentagon released a report Friday indicating that over 80,000 people have been detained in numerous facilities world-wide since the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. The report comes amid increased criticism by human rights groups and European organizations of the US government's treatment of detainees, and on the heels of reports that the CIA [...]

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A US federal court jury Friday found against a former Salvadoran Army colonel , holding him responsible for murder and torture carried out during the El Salvador civil war in the 1980s. The jury heard a lawsuit filed by five Salvadoran citizens who alleged they were tortured or had family members killed by soldiers who [...]

The US House of Representatives voted Friday to repeal a trade program passed in 2000 which the World Trade Organization (WTO) has determined to be a violation of global trade laws . The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act , otherwise known as the Byrd Amendment, has paid competing US companies over $1 billion from [...]

A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has called US Vice President Dick Cheney a "vice president for torture," saying that the Bush administration condones and even approves torture policies. Admiral Stansfield Turner, a Carter administration appointee who led the CIA from 1977 to 1981, spoke to Britain's ITV News and said Cheney [...]

Iraqi Special Tribunal officials Thursday denied reports that Saddam Hussein was attacked and punched several times by two court clerks after he insulted two Shiite saints during an interrogation session. Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Mousawi said "no one in the court attacked Saddam or punished him and we will never allow anyone in the court to [...]

The US Department of Justice has downplayed the conclusions of a 51-page memo indicating that a Georgia voter identification law will harm black voters, saying the information was based on old data and followed a faulty analysis. Earlier this year, the Georgia state legislature passed a plan that requires all voters to have photo IDs, [...]

A district court in Kiev Friday reinstated Svyatoslav Piskun as Ukraine's prosecutor general after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed him last month. Piskun accused the president of terminating him because he began an investigation into the expenditures of Yushchenko's wife . Piskun said Friday that he was satisfied with the court's opinion calling it a [...]