A U.S. investigation is under way to determine whether China secretly copied a top American official’s government laptop computer during a trip late last year, subsequently using the information in…
A 2004 telephone call from a law professor and a military lawyer in 2004 led to a startling shift in practice for two Seattle business litigators at Perkins Coie.
A sentence in a Justice Department memo helps explain how the administration justified domestic wiretaps of overseas terrorism suspects despite a law establishing a special court to hear surveillance requests.
The House Judiciary Committee today subpoenaed Karl Rove, the ex-White House political adviser. He’s being called to testify as part of the committee’s continuing probe of whether the White House…
Among the Justice Department officials who raised concerns about harsh interrogations of al-Qaida suspects were Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security chief who was at the time the assistant attorney general…
As Barack Obama slowly but surely takes a definitive lead in the Democratic primary, there’s another option he could pursue to put opponent Hillary Clinton on his team as she…
A much-awaited revisionist book about Watergate is being released. But, while it shifts the blame a bit between some of President Richard M. Nixon’s men concerning their responsibility for the…
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to turn over to him for in camera review by Monday a secret memorandum described by the American Civil Liberties Union as…
A House panel is moving ahead with efforts to force testimony by those believed to have played leading roles in helping the Bush administration craft aggressive interrogation policies for terrorism…
Murat Kurnaz is a German man who spent five years in the custody of the U.S. and its allies and is still considered an enemy combatant even now that he…
Republican heavyweights allegedly tried to use their influence with the White House to get U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald removed from office as he was pursuing a politically charged case against…
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled today that former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman cannot be held liable for saying that the air near the collapsed World…
In detailed discussions in the White House basement, top aides to President Bush micromanaged at least several torture sessions of terrorist suspects, starting in 2002, a major newspaper says.
Updated: President Bush’s use of executive privilege to prevent two top aides from testifying before Congress last year about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys is the most sweeping since…
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