by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer Tomorrow, November 18, Attorney General Eric Holder will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, likely facing questions regarding and criticism of his decision to abandon military tribunals for five 9/11 terrorists in favor of using the...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer The House Judiciary Committee recently voted to reauthorize certain expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act as part of the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009. The bill, H.R. 3845, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, proposes privacy protections...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer The November 8th shootings at Ft. Hood are less than a week old, and yet investigators and pundits are already interpreting what they see to be their deep-seated meaning. Officially, after two days of investigation, the FBI and the Army...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer On November 4th, an Italian court convicted in absentia 23 Americans-twenty-two purported CIA agents and one Air Force Officer-for their role in the kidnapping and rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, better known as Abu Omar. ...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer On October 11, 2009, The New York Times reported that, “Afghanistan’s judiciary is so weak that Afghans increasingly turn to a shadow Taliban court system,” especially in rural areas where people lack access to the judicial process. As the...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer The Obama Administration is one step closer to achieving its goal of closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by January 22, 2010. On Tuesday, October 20, 2009, the Senate, by a vote of 79 to 19, passed the $44.1 billion budget for...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer Today’s Wall Street Journal features an op-ed from former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in which he argues that alleged terrorist detainees should not be tried in US civilian courts. In particular, Mukasey criticizes Attorney General Holder’s...
