The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Tuesday that a proposal to limit ACLU board members from publicly speaking about their internal policies has been withdrawn by a committee of the National Board of Directors. The proposal drew criticism from editorialists, donors, and board members as a hypocritical limit on board members' ability to dissent [...]
The US Army plans to discontinue a contract to provide logistical support to US troops with oil services giant Halliburton , the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Halliburton has served as the exclusive contractor in Iraq, and Army officials said cutting ties with Halliburton is a move to employ multiple contractors in a bid to find [...]
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill to effectively ban most Internet gambling by a margin of 317-93 . The legislation would prohibit people from using credit cards and other forms of Internet payments to settle Internet bets, and also allow law enforcement and Internet providers to block access to gambling websites. [...]
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak on Wednesday revealed that Karl Rove , President Bush's top political advisor, was one of two secondary sources who confirmed that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was employed by the CIA and helped initiate the ambassador's 2002 mission to Niger. It was Novak's July 2003 column that [...]
Sir Richard Dearlove , former head of the British intelligence agency known as MI6 , has said that two components of the US war on terrorism would be illegal under British law. Dearlove, who led the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1999 to 2004 and is now master of Pembroke College, Cambridge , said the [...]
William Haynes , the Pentagon general counsel nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , struggled to defend defense policies Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing , drawing bipartisan questions relating to coercive interrogation techniques employed by the military in questioning terrorism suspects. Haynes helped draft the Defense Department's detention and [...]
US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , told reporters Tuesday that the Defense Department has been too lenient in its policies on custody of terror suspects, questioning the release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay . Hunter's comments came ahead of a scheduled Wednesday committee hearing on standards for [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and co-author of amicus briefs in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Guantanamo detainee litigation, says that although Hamdan directly addressed only the handful of cases in which the administration has charged individuals before military [...]
European Commission antitrust regulators imposed a $357 million fine on Microsoft Wednesday for not complying with a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling . Early in July, the EC approved in principle new fines against Microsoft, after it warned last December that Microsoft may face fines of up to $2.5 million per day for not giving [...]
Eloise Pepion Cobell et al. v. Dirk Kempthorne et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
