Ted Sorensen, former special counsel to US President John F. Kennedy, said in a commencement address at the University of Nebraska College of Law Saturday that lawyers from the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
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Lawyers who authorized torture ‘disgraced profession’: JFK counsel Sorensen
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Bangladesh foreign minister begins 13-year corruption sentence
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UN adds new dangerous chemicals to treaty blacklist
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Canada government to appeal ruling mandating efforts to repatriate Khadr
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US military contractor gets probation after pleading guilty to shooting Afghan detainee
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Obama administration to keep Bush-era rule on polar bear global warming protections
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White House proposes elimination of illegal alien incarceration program
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Croatia lawmaker convicted of war crimes in death of Serbian civilians
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Federal jury convicts ex-US soldier in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
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Specter to chair Senate judiciary crime and drugs subcommittee
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Former Bangladeshi foreign minister Morshed Khan began serving as a 13-year sentence on Sunday, after surrendering to a Dhaka court. Khan, who served from 2001 to 2006 under former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was convicted ...
The UN Environment Programme , meeting in Geneva on Saturday, decided to add nine chemicals to its list of banned chemicals under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) . Not all the added...
An official for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Friday confirmed the governments intention to appeal a Federal Court ruling directing the government to firmly push for the repatriation of Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...
A US military contractor who pleaded guilty in February to voluntary manslaughter for the 2008 shooting of an Afghan detainee was sentenced in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ...
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) will maintain a controversial Bush-era rule that limits how polar bears are protected from global warming , Secretary of the Interior Ken...
US President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed $17 billion in cuts to the fiscal year 2010 federal budget, including cutting $400 million from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) . SCAAP is a...
Croatian parliament member Branimir Glavas was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the killing of Serbian civilians during the Croatian war of independence . Glavas stood accused of ordering the torture...
A jury in US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Thursday convicted former Pfc. Steven D. Green of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl , and the...
Newly-declared Democratic Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) was appointed chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on Thursday. Specter received that post from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who voluntarily...
