Senate Republicans want Supreme Court nominee to apply law impartially
US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday that he wants the Supreme Court nominee who will replace retiring Justice David Souter to be someone who will apply the law without bias....
Private contractors in overseas combat zones face legal and psychological risks
Maggie Botes : "The International Contractors Association has a Code of Conduct to which all our members subscribe. It promotes integrity and professional conduct, and supports accountability for any misconduct or crime. With this said, our...
A former high-value US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detainee died in a Libyan prison Tuesday. Ali Mohamed Abdelaziz al Fakhiri, also known as Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi , apparently committed suicide in his cell at...
US Nuremberg trials prosecutor Henry King Jr. died Saturday from cancer at the age of 89. King, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law ...
Secrecy in China's trials of Tibetan protestors indicates political verdicts
Sophie Richardson : "The Chinese government's secrecy in handling unrest in Tibet since the March 2008 protests erupted in Lhasa was highlighted again on April 8, 2009, when a simple dispatch from the official news...
Senate Republicans pick conservative to take senior Specter slot on judiciary committee
US Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was chosen Monday by Senate Republicans to replace newly-declared Democrat Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) as ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee . Sessions will play a key role in questioning President Barack...
Obama affirms position that waterboarding is torture, defends banning technique
US President Barack Obama reaffirmed Wednesday his position that the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to torture and defended his decision to ban use of the technique ....
Torture debate threatens to damage US relationship with foreign intelligence services
Darryl Thibault : "The controversy over what to do about interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush Administration is not likely to go away soon. Nor will it be easy to know who...
The 'Torture Memos': Learning That Ends Do Not Justify Means
JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that if we learn nothing else from recent disclosures about the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism detainees, we must come to...
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday testified in front of a House Appropriations subcommittee that he is willing to release as much information as possible in regards to interrogation techniques used on Guantanamo...
