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Zachariah Rivenbark

January 17, 2015 08:04:00 am

12/09/2014: UN rights expert urged prosecution of US officials responsible for torture

12/09/2014: Senate report concluded enhanced interrogation techniques ‘ineffective’

11/28/2014: UN report criticized US compliance with anti-torture treaty

09/07/2014: CIA used ‘extreme’ torture methods on terror suspects: report

08/29/2014: CIA rendition victims urged Obama to name them in Senate report

06/30/2014: Federal appeals court revived Abu Ghraib torture lawsuit

04/03/2014: Senate committee voted to release CIA ‘torture’ report

11/04/2013: Report: US medical professionals participated in detainee torture

THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

Read the full Balfour Declaration as well as other documents regarding Israeli-Palestinian relations from the BBC.