FBI director reports on terrorism interrogations at Senate Judiciary hearing
FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed the FBI's role in leading the new specialized interrogation group to question top terrorist suspects as well as many other topics in a wide ranging oversight hearing before the...
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...
The trial of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic is scheduled to begin October 19, according to a press release from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday. Presiding...
Eight years after 9/11 , counterterrorism efforts continue to dominate the operations and budget of the FBI , according to a Tuesday report by the New York Times. Since the attacks, the bureau has doubled...
Ireland agrees to hold second EU reform treaty referendum after concessions made
The Irish government agreed Friday to hold another referendum on the European Union (EU) reform treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty , after EU leaders agreed to certain concessions . At a conference in...
Military judge grants government motion to delay Guantanamo case
A US military judge on Tuesday granted a government motion to postpone hearings for Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi . Chief judge for military commissions Colonel James Pohl granted...
Russia plan would shift appointment of Constitutional Court chief to parliament
Speaker of the Russian State Duma Boris Gryzlov said Wednesday that a proposal by President Dmitry Medvedev to allow parliament to select the head of the Constitutional Court will be supported by the...
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary Schapiro on Thursday named Robert Khuzami as the new director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Khuzmani replaces former director of enforcement Linda Thomsen,...
Europe rights court orders UK to compensate illegally detained Muslim cleric
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered the UK to pay £2,500 in damages to Islamic cleric Abu Qataba after determining that he was imprisoned by...
Japan's Ministry of Justice announced Thursday that four death row inmates were executed, despite international pressure to end the practice. The executions are the country's first of 2009. Last year, the...
