National Security Agency technicians have been analyzing large volumes of phone and internet traffic information going through American telecomunications data hubs as part of the warrantless surveillance program authorized by President Bush to identify individuals having connections to Al Qaeda, according to officials quoted by the New York Times in a report published Saturday. The [...]

A spokesman for the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants said Saturday that a Kurdish investigative judge for the tribunal had been targeted in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Munir Hadad , one of 20 investigative judges, was going through a Baghdad neighborhood Friday in an [...]

An FBI official Friday confirmed a US News and World Report article claiming that since 9/11 the US government has been clandestinely monitoring radiation levels at over 100 Muslim locations in the Washington DC area – including mosques, businesses and honmes – in search of nuclear bombs. Monitoring had also been conducted in Chicago, Detroit, [...]

Samuel A. Alito to the US Solicitor General, Memo re: Forsyth v. Kleindienst, US Department of Justice, March 8, 1984 . Read the full text of the memo from the National Archives. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A body found in a canal in Brussels, Belgium, was identified on Friday as that of an indicted Rwandan ex-minister cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Former Rwandan Commerce Minister Juvenal Uwilingiyimana was indicted by ICTR in June 2005 for conspiracy, incitement and murder in connection with its ongoing probe of [...]

An Italian judge issued European arrest warrants on Friday for the 22 CIA operatives accused of participating in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 . Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro said the warrants allowed for the arrest of those accused in any of the 25 European Union countries. Spataro has also filed a request [...]

Muslim-Americans attending an annual international religious conference in Canada that began Friday and continues through January 4 may be subject to lengthy security checks upon their return to the United States after US District Court Judge William Skretny ruled Thursday that such searches were not unconstitutional. While he acknowledged "there is no information whatsoever to [...]

US Senate Juduciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy suggested Friday that US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito will face additional questions at his January confirmation hearing on unchecked presidential authority and the particular issue of warrantless eavesdropping after the US National Archives earlier Friday released a 1984 Justice Department memo Alito wrote expressing the view [...]

In response to a series of deadly bombings in recent months, the government of Bangladesh plans to introduce a new anti-terrorist law to counter Islamist militants. The attacks, aimed at judges, lawyers, police and journalists, have killed 30 people since August. A bombing at a court complex in December left 25 wounded while days earlier [...]

Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi lawyer for Saddam Hussein , claimed Friday in an interview with the Associated Press that his client had been "severely tortured" by Americans during his detention, bolstering Saddam's own claims dramatically made in court Wednesday. He said that three medical teams had found evidence of abuse and that he himself had [...]