Former vice-presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told the federal grand jury investigating the CIA leak case that President Bush authorized his disclosure of intelligence information on Iraq, according to the government's response to Libby's third motion to compel discovery . Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald filed court papers Wednesday which reveal that Libby [...]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has selected British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan to serve as his provisional counsel in proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Special Court Principal Defender Vincent Nmehielle on Wednesday issued a decision to appoint Khan, a specialist in international criminal law and human rights law, to defend [...]
Government summary of grand jury testimony by I. "Scooter" Libby, former Chief of Staff to US Vice President Dick Cheney on President Bush's 2003 authorization for Libby to disclose certain US intelligence information on Iraq's weapons program from a classified National Intelligence Estimate, as contained in Government's Response to Defendant's Third Motion to Compel Discovery, [...]
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani testified at the resumed sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Thursday, describing the 9/11 attacks as he experienced them in his official capacity. He recalled being unable to grasp the extent of the calamity until he saw victims jumping from the windows of the burning World Trade Center [...]
The US Department of Defense said Thursday that a review of one of the government's national security databases, the Threat and Local Observation Notice system or TALON program , uncovered approximately 260 improper entries into the system. The database serves as a reporting system for possible threats by international terrorists to Pentagon employees or facilities, [...]
Police officers in Nepal arrested 300 protestors Thursday who were involved in 16 demonstrations across the capital city calling for a restoration of democracy in the country. Gopendra Pandey, a spokesman for the Nepal Ministry of Home Affairs , said that arrests had been made but did not confirm a final number, and denied that [...]
A British county court has given a UK anti-war activist until May 5 to pay £580 (about $1,017 USD) in back taxes he's withholding to protest the war in Iraq or face seizure of his property. Robin Brookes, a member of the Peace Tax Seven , told the court in a hearing earlier this week [...]
The Ugandan Supreme Court has ruled by a vote of 4-3 against a challenge to the February 23 presidential elections which allowed President Yoweri Museveni to remain in power. The challenge and request for a re-election was brought by opposition candidate Kizza Besigye and his party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) . The court [...]
Khaled Abu Arafa, the minister of Jerusalem affairs in the new Hamas-led Palestinian government , was detained Thursday by Israeli police as he attempted to meet his predecessor, Ziad Abu Zayyad, for administrative purposes. Reports indicate Abu Arafa may have been taken into custody for attempting to open an office in eastern Jerusalem, which under [...]
The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006 received near-unanimous approval by the US House of Representatives Wednesday evening. The bill, if approved by the Senate and signed by the president, would deny entry to the US and freeze the assets of those responsible for committing genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity in Sudan's [...]
