Gonzales defends 'confusing' testimony on intelligence programs
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday in response to a request that Gonzales clarify testimony provided last week. Gonzales maintained...
French magistrates have filed preliminary charges of "complicity in slanderous denunciations" against former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin , Villepin's lawyer said Friday. Villepin is accused of ordering a smear campaign against...
UK PM Brown urges longer detention without charge in security statement
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament Wednesday in a wide-ranging statement on security and counter-terrorism policy that new rules need to be implemented that allow police more time to question uncharged terror suspects....
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the President's recent Executive Order interpreting Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions for US interrogations practice is an invalid and illegal act ... On...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday that he will stay at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to improve its damaged image. In prepared testimony released Monday, Gonzales said that he...
US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell insisted Sunday that the "United States does not engage in torture" , but refused to elaborate on the specific methods used during enhanced interrogations of terror suspects. In...
JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the much-discussed ideological divide between Shi'is and Sunnis in Iraq is actually more subtle and complex than is usually depicted... There has been a...
Miers repeats refusal to testify before House panel as other subpoenas granted delays
Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers again refused Tuesday to testify in front of the US House Judiciary Committee regarding the allegedly political firings of eight US attorneys . In a letter to...
US House committee subpoenas RNC for US Attorney firings emails
US House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a subpoena Friday to the Republican National Committee (RNC) to turn over any emails on the US Attorney firings sent by White...
House panel moves toward contempt proceedings after Miers ignores subpoena
A panel of the US House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she ignored a subpoena ordering her to appear and testify at...
