The CIA and the American military have been accessing the banking and credit records of hundreds of American citizens suspected of ties to terror groups, the New York Times reported Sunday. Since 9/11 ,...
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Federal judge dismisses anthrax defamation suit against New York Times
US District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia Friday granted a motion for dismissal made by the New York Times in a defamation suit filed against the paper by Dr. Stephen J. Hatfill...
US to ease entry bars on some foreigners giving 'material support' to armed groups
The Bush Administration said Thursday it will propose legislation easing some anti-terrorism restrictions in order to allow foreigners who have helped armed groups not considered terrorists to seek asylum or resettle in the United States. As a result of...
War crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general begins at ICTY
The trial of Dragomir Milosevic began Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic, a former Bosnian Serb general not related to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, has been...
Saddam will directed lawyers to cease appeals; UK failed to stop execution
In his final will, dictated to his principal Iraqi defense counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi 24 hours before his December 30 execution , former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein instructed his legal team to stop...
Democrat-led House passes first bill to implement 9/11 recommendations
The US House of Representatives passed its first piece of legislation for the 110th Congress late Tuesday, a bill to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission remaining after the enactment of...
Lawyers for Saddam co-defendants make last efforts to stop executions
Lawyers for Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , the two Saddam Hussein co-defendants sentenced to...
Hanging of Saddam co-defendants delayed after 'international pressure'
The executions of two Saddam Hussein co-defendants, former chief judge of Iraq's Hussein-era Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , have been postponed....
JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says that the cell phone video of the Saddam Hussein execution has revealed it to be an exercise in revenge, not justice... Given that virtually...
Ex-Enron accounting head reports to Texas prison for six-year fraud sentence
Richard Causey , former Enron chief accounting officer, has reported to the Bastrop Federal Correction Institution , a low-security facility in Texas, to begin serving his prison sentence for his role in the...
