Jordan is a "central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers" allegedly operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency and foreign intelligence agencies, according to an Amnesty International report [text;...
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Jordan ‘central hub’ of extraordinary rendition: Amnesty report
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Hastert may challenge court order allowing FBI to view seized congressional papers
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Contentious Bolton confirmation hearing promised
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Saddam absent from court as Iraq trial resumes
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Bush signing statements ‘undermine rule of law’: ABA task force
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US Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq [HRW]
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UN humanitarian chief touring Beirut says excessive force violates international law
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US commanders authorized widespread abuse of Iraqi detainees: HRW report
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DOJ political appointees changing Civil Rights Division hiring, focus
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Saddam hospitalized for tube feeding after hunger strike makes health ‘unstable’
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US House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) told Fox News Sunday over the weekend that he might challenge a July 10 federal court order allowing the FBI to view documents seized in the...
US Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) promised Sunday that US United Nations Ambassador John Bolton would face a difficult fight in his upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. Last summer, President Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and...
The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad on Monday, though the former Iraqi leader was not in court due to his weekend hospitalization after collapsing in jail on the sixteenth day...
An American Bar Association Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine has determined that President Bush's practice of attaching signing statements to new laws "undermine the rule...
"No Blood, No Foul:" Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Human Rights Watch, July 23, 2006 [finding on the basis of interviews with US soldiers that US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices and...
Touring south Beirut Sunday, United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland said the damage to civilian areas caused by Israeli airstrikes was worse than he had anticipated and reemphasized that attacking civilians...
US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices even in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal , and military lawyers brought in to brief interrogators erroneously told them that the Geneva Conventions...
Less than half of lawyers hired to work in the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division since 2003 have a background in civil rights, according to resumes obtained by the Boston Globe through a Freedom of...
Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying...
