Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006, signed into law by President George W. Bush, January 12, 2007 [protecting traditional, wireless, and internet phone calling consumers by preventing phone companies from selling their private phone records without customer authorization...

World Report 2007, Human Rights Watch, January 11, 2007 . Read...

A Cuban exile militant wanted in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people was indicted Thursday by a US federal grand jury in Texas on one count of...

US and Iraqi officials disagreed strongly over legal procedures and interpretations in the run-up to the December 30 hanging of Saddam Hussein , the New York Times reported Sunday. Disagreements were reported very soon after...

Background checks and records on William J. Rehnquist, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), released January 4, 2007 [revealing that he was prescribed a powerful sleeping aid when he was an associate justice, which he took for over a decade,...

The Death Penalty in 2006: Year-End Report, Death Penalty Information Center, December 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

President Bush told reporters at the White House Thursday that last weekend's videoed hanging of Saddam Hussein amidst taunts from guards and witnesses fell short of what he would have liked, but nonetheless insisted on the legitimacy of the...

Detainees Positive Responses, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), September 2004, released in response to a FOIA request by the American Civil Liberties Union, January 2, 2007 [internal report of FBI agents' observations of instances of military personnel and contractors...

New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Report, January 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper...

US ambassador-at-large for war crimes Clint Williamson told a Sarajevo newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that the United States would consider it "absolutely unacceptable" for fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and...