Letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine, US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, August 16, 2007 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

FBI Director Robert Mueller's personal notes, Federal Bureau of Investigation, August 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the notes . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A federal jury found Jose Padilla and his two co-defendants guilty Thursday on all charges against them. Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun, and Kifah Wael Jayyousi were convicted of conspiracy to commit illegal violent acts outside the US, conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, and providing material support to terrorists. They face a maximum penalty [...]

The lead counsel for former Liberian president Charles Taylor Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to lift its travel ban against individuals deemed to be threats to the peace process in Liberia, saying that the defense team needs to be able to present favorable witnesses before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) to testify [...]

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai: The cruel irony is that the most pressing diseases are the ones that don't make money. Multinational pharmaceutical corporations from the United States and Europe can rake in the profits selling drugs that treat rich world diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and, if it can actually be called [...]

The government of the Netherlands is close to reaching an agreement with the United Nations to host the ad hoc tribunal that will investigate and try suspects involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Bart Rijs said Thursday. Rijs added that Dutch Foreign [...]

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani announced the formation of a new coalition government Thursday, formally signing an agreement with Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council leader Adil Abdul-Mahdi and Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq leader Massoud Barzani . The agreement between the Shi'a and Kurdish parties guarantees that the coalition government will maintain [...]

Hamas spokesperson Islam Shahwan said Thursday that Hamas security forces have arrested Palestinian Authority-appointed Attorney General Ahmed al-Mghani after al-Mghani ignored an order of dismissal from the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip . According to Shahwan, al-Mghani entered the office of the attorney general after he was dismissed so that he could destroy documents. [...]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) Wednesday announced he would indefinitely block the confirmation process of CIA general counsel nominee John Rizzo , saying he had reservations due to Rizzo's failure to object to the controversial 2002 "Bybee Memo" and the continued lack of clear legal guidelines for the CIA's detention and interrogation programs. Rizzo, who has [...]

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state can execute a defendant who begins to exhibit symptoms comparable with mental retardation after the age of 18. Under Tennessee's criminal code , mental retardation is defined as a condition where an individual scores 70 or below on an IQ test, demonstrates "deficits in adaptive behavior," [...]