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John Negroponte , director of US national intelligence, has said that the US has no immediate plans to put detained suspected senior al Qaeda members on trial. In a speech Thursday commemorating the first anniversary of...

Steven Bradbury , acting head of the US Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel , told Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a closed Senate Intelligence Committee meeting last week that the president may...

An Afghan government official said Monday that Afghan security forces have arrested three young Pakistani men on charges of planning to assassinate US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad . The men were arrested Saturday in the province of Laghman, a...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, April 21.The US Senate convenes at 9:30 AM ET today. It will begin an executive session at 10:30 AM ET to...

John Negroponte on Tuesday promised that security and intelligence agencies would not use torture in gathering intelligence under his watch as National Director of Intelligence. Negroponte faced tough questioning during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence...

John Negroponte , President Bush's selection for the new national intelligence director post, is expected to win Senate confirmation, but human rights questions dogging Negroponte from his time as ambassador to Honduras may slow the process. Confirmation hearings...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, April 12.The US Senate convenes at 9:45 AM ET today, when it will consider H.R. 1268 , the Iraq/Afghanistan Supplemental...

A presidential commission on Thursday said US intelligence agencies know "disturbingly little" about threats posed by the nation's most dangerous adversaries, and the commission recommended more than 70 changes that President Bush can make to improve intelligence. The WMD...

AP is reporting that President Bush has picked Under Secretary of State John Bolton to be US ambassador to the United Nations , according to a government official "knowledgeable about the...

Human rights groups criticized Bush pick for intelligence director nominee John Negroponte Friday, stating the current US ambassador to Iraq has a record of supporting human rights violations. Critics allege that during his role as ambassador to...