EFF Challenges Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity in Federal Court

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, public interest advocacy org for rights in the digital age, has filed a brief in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of the telecom immunity bill. EFF is arguing there is no Constitutional authority for giving authority to...

Special Prosecutor Named in Attorney Firings Case

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor to if criminal charges are called for in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006."The move came as the Justice Department released a report by its inspector general severely criticizing the process that led...

Sex Assault Cases Justice Silent on KBR/Halliburton Rape

" (ABC News, "20/20")More Photos The Justice Department is declining to talk to concerned lawmakers about its handling of rape and sexual assault cases involving American women in Iraq, making several of them...

Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

What is Mr. Bush trying to do? What is Mr. Bush trying to address?Is Mr. Bush hiding something?"President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice...

MS-13 on the Run?

"I seriously doubt it. Taking a couple of thugs out of action is a good thing but won’t destroy the gang. Taking away their reason for being an organization - i.e. their ability to make money - will kill MS-13...

"Buy OEM or the Terrorists Win"

The Attorney General of the US has made a frankly bizarre claim that terrorist organizations are financing their operations via software piracy. This may have been somewhat plausible if he had a shred of proof,...

FBI opens Tejada inquiry

Baseball all-star Miguel Tejada is under scrutiny from the FBI over allegations that he lied to investigators when he denied using steroids. "``The Department of Justice has referred the Miguel Tejada matter to...

A Lesson For Mukasey: Why I Had Myself Water-Boarded

"By April of 2006 the debate about coercive interrogation and its most controversial technique, water-boarding, had started to spill into the headlines. I was in graduate school at the time. As I watched the...

Mukasey mum on torture techniques

I bet we could get an answer out of him if we waterboarded him:"WASHINGTON - Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey refused to say Thursday whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, frustrating Democrats and potentially slowing his confirmation to head the...

As Judge Leaves for Law Firm, His Legacy Is Remembered

Judge Mukasey presided over the nearly year long 1995 trial of 10 militant Muslims who had a plot to blow up the United Nations and other New York landmarks around the city.Judge Mukasey sentenced the central...

Bin Laden's Spy And Judge Mukasey

Former federal judge Michael Mukasey -- President's Bush's new attorney general nominee -- has quite an impressive resume. But his highest profile case is also among his most problematic -- the 1995 prosecution of...

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