Lack of clear DNI legal mandate complicating US intelligence effort: report
The lack of a concrete legal mandate for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) , constant infighting within the intelligence community and an unprecedented expansion of resources and intelligence-gathering capacities following the 9/11 attacks have...
Federal judge rules for Islamic charity in NSA wiretapping case
A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted partial summary judgment Wednesday in favor of an Islamic charity that claimed the federal government illegally wiretapped its conversations without a...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that the Supreme Court of Canada was simply wrong in taking the extraordinary step of denying Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr the remedy ordered by the...
A UK court on Tuesday began the first non-jury criminal trial in England or Wales in more than 400 years. Defendants John Twomey, Peter Blake, Barry Hibberd, and Glen Cameron appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice, accused of...
France conservative leader to introduce bill to ban burqas in public
The leader of France's conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) announced Wednesday that he will introduce legislation banning the burqa in public. Jean-Francois Cope's announcement [Le Figaro report, in...
DOJ investigation into terror suspect interrogations harms US national security
Steven Emerson : "Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed a career Federal prosecutor from Connecticut to lead a preliminary investigation into whether criminal laws were broken by US intelligence operatives involved in post-9/11 terror suspect...
Ex-Guantanamo detainee at center of Supreme Court case alleges torture
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee at the center of a landmark Supreme Court case Lakhdar Boumediene said in an interview with ABC News released Monday that he was tortured by...
Germany court rules Holocaust survivors eligible for pensions
The Federal Social Court of Western Germany ruled Tuesday that Jewish-German Holocaust survivors as a class are eligible to collect old-age pension benefits. Specifically, the court found that although the...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that former Vice President Dick Cheney's statements about his direct involvement in the authorization of unlawful interrogation tactics such as waterboarding are clear evidence of complicity in...
The Vermont State Legislature on Monday began a series of week-long hearings on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage in the state. The bill, "An Act to Protect Religious Freedom...
