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Ben Davis : "There's an old adage in the military that goes "different spanks for different ranks" (see James W. Smith III, "A Few Good Scapegoats: The Abu Ghraib Courts-Martial and the Failure of the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that President Bush's acknowledgement that high-level terror detainees have been held in secret CIA prisons should be the beginning of a cleansing process in which leaders...

A federal judge in Argentina Tuesday ruled unconstitutional a presidential pardon extended to Jorge Rafael Videla , who prosecutors say led Argentina's military junta during the worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" ...

Lisl Brunner : "The Casa Rosada, which houses the offices of the President of Argentina, has a pristinely pink façade: the yellowish brown hue of its other three sides, however, marks the...

Indonesian authorities on Monday stayed the executions of Amrozi Nurhasyim, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra, three of the men convicted for the bombings that killed over 200 people at a Bali nightclub in 2002 , allowing time for...

An attorney representing Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak scandal , announced Tuesday he would use legal precedent from former President Bill Clinton's sexual harassment trial in a bid to force...

Lawyers for the three men sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings Friday threatened to sue the Indonesia attorney general's office if their clients' executions, currently scheduled for mid-August , are carried out before...

Three men convicted in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will likely be executed in late August, a spokesman from the Bali district attorney's office said Tuesday. Under Indonesian law, head of Denpasar's district attorney office...

Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak scandal , filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday against Vice President Dick Cheney, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove [official...

Indonesia is preparing to execute three men convicted in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings , a spokesman from the Indonesian Attorney General's office said Wednesday. Under Indonesian law, spokesman Wayan Pasek Suarte could not disclose the location or...