Ashcroft involved with torture memos: Bush administration lawyers
Controversial US interrogation policies outlined in two 2002 and 2003 memoranda were reviewed by top Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft , according to two former Bush administration officials...
Supreme Court to hear Ashcroft immunity, veteran benefits, prison damages cases
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear three cases , including Ashcroft v. Iqbal, et al. (07-1015) , in which the Court will consider whether high-ranking US...
US military court-martialing civilian contractor Ali while DOJ slumbers
Kevin Lanigan : "The U.S. military in Iraq is quickly moving toward its first court-martial of a civilian contractor since the Vietnam war. The case holds some promise of beginning to reign in...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says in this excerpt from her recent testimony to the US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties that not only the high...
House panel votes to subpoena Cheney aide on DOJ interrogation memo
The US House Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted to issue a subpoena to compel Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff David Addington to testify about a recently released Department of Justice Office of Legal...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently disclosed US Department of Justice letters to US Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden (D-OR) on detainee interrogations reflect a misleading and erroneous understanding of...
US House panel threatens to subpoena Ashcroft on DOJ interrogation memo
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) Monday threatened to seek subpoenas to compel three current and former administration officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft , to testify about a recently released Department...
Top White House officials approved harsh interrogation methods: reports
US Vice President Dick Cheney and other top White House officials approved controversial interrogation methods, including waterboarding , in secret meetings, AP reported Friday. An unnamed former senior intelligence official confirmed an earlier ABC News report ...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the recently released 2003 John Yoo memo on US military interrogation techniques opened up a path to torture and leaves a great number of persons potentially...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa - now on hunger strike and...
