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UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw has announced reforms to the way Britain uses its secret intelligence. Straw announced the reforms Wednesday as part of a written statement to Parliament on...

According to a report in Wednesday's New York Times, military officials have said that at least 26 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan have been concluded to be or are suspected of being the result of acts of criminal...

journalist Giuliana Sgrena to safety after she had been released from her Iraqi captors. The attack wounded Sgrena and killed an Italian secret...

Tenet v. Doe, Supreme Court of the United States, March 2, 2005 [ruling that two former spys for the CIA could not sue the agency for support after it had backed out of an alleged agreement to provide them with...

Unanimously reversing a Ninth Circuit ruling , the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Tenet v. Doe that two former spies for the CIA could not sue the agency for support after it...

An Iranian official has said that Iran's nuclear program does not violate international law and that Iran is merely exercising its internationally recognized right to produce nuclear material. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said that Iran was following all...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, Feb. 22.The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In...

US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled Wednesday that the Central Intelligence Agency should comply with Freedom of Information Act requests made by the American Civil Liberties Union and turn over its records concerning the...

In Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Thom Calandra, former chief commentator for CBS MarketWatch , will pay at least $540,000 in penalties to settle fraud charges with the SEC . The charges stem from allegations Calandra...

A former civilian Arabic translator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp pleaded guilty Monday to charges of mishandling classified information and lying to investigators. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, a naturalized US citizen of Egyptian origin, has been...