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UK minister admits UK involvement in US rendition program
UK Secretary of State for Defence John Hutton gave a statement to the UK House of Commons Thursday providing details of participation with US forces in the rendition of terrorism suspects from Iraq to US detention in Afghanistan, possibly by way (More) |
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Leahy announces hearings on truth commission for Bush-era policies
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced on Wednesday that the Committee is set to begin hearings on the creation of a truth commission charged with investigating the national security policies of the G (More) |
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Rendition Revisited: Panetta and Obama Step into the Gray
JURIST Guest Columnist Afsheen John Radsan, former CIA assistant general counsel now at William Mitchell College of Law, says that instead of categorically rejecting rendition as a US strategy, new CIA chief Leon Panetta and President Obama will like (More) |
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A Call to End All Renditions
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism suspects to other countries so long as the process is somehow handle (More) |
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Holder orders DOJ review of US state secret assertions
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday ordered a review of all government claims invoking the state secrets privilege . A spokesperson for the Department of Justice (DOJ) said that each state secrets claim will be reviewed to make sure the priv (More) |
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Obama administration will not prosecute CIA interrogators: Panetta
Nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta said Friday that the Obama administration will not prosecute CIA officials who used harsh interrogation techniques, reiterating testimony he gave Thursday. After a second (More) |
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CIA director nominee Panetta pledges agency will 'perform according to law'
Nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta testified [testimony, PDF; materials] Thursday before the US Senate Intelligence Committee that he would perform his duties according to the law while upholding the Consti (More) |
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Arar decries alleged linkage to Khadr case
Former US detainee and Canadian citizen Maher Arar [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] said Thursday that he was shocked and saddened to learn that US government officials had testified at the US military commission trial of fellow Canadian cit (More) |
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Obama issues torture ban, orders CIA 'secret prisons' closed
Discharging key campaign pledges on his third day in office, US President Barack Obama expressly banned US use of torture in interrogations and directed the immediate shutdown of CIA detention facilities in a third executive order on US detention (More) |
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UK foreign minister says terrorism must be fought through law, not war
UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband said Thursday in a Guardian editorial that the "war of terror" embraced by the US and UK governments in recent years was a "misleading and mistaken" term (More) |
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emporer
On December 25, 800 A.D., Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome, Italy. During his lifetime, Charlemagne united most of western Europe for the first time since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is credited with spreading the rule of law throughout his dominions as well as starting the French and German monarchies.
