by Marjorie Cohn From San Francisco Chronicle | Original Article A Spanish court has initiated criminal proceedings against six former officials of the Bush administration. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto…
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Ex-Terror Detainee Says U.S. Tortured Him
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Department of Justice to Recommend Bar Association Action Against Five or More
From LA Progressive | Original Article by Charley James posted on Thursday, 2 April 2009 The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility will recommend state bar associations take disciplinary measures against at…
War Crimes and Double Standards
By Robert Pary March 8, 2009 From InTheseTimes.com | Original Article New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof–like many of his American colleagues–is applauding the International Criminal Court’s arrest order against…
3/17/09 President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February?
By Jeremy Scahill From AlterNet.org | Original Article For those already outraged at the AIG bonus scandal, here is a fact that should add more fuel to the fire: The Obama administration…
NLGSF Files Complaint With California State Bar Against William Haynes
From National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Chapter | Original Article Former Department of Defense General Counsel Recommended Torture, Harsh Interrogation Techniques San Francisco – The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area…
Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
From WhiteHouse.gov | Original Article EXECUTIVE ORDER — REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES By the authority vested in me as…
Are We Civilized Enough to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for War Crimes?
Are We Civilized Enough to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for War Crimes? The World Is Watching | Original Article By John W. Dean, FindLaw.comPosted on January 24, 2009, Printed on March 24,…
Strategy for U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court
Strategy for U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court, by David Scheffer and John Hutson | Download PDF The first paragraph of this document: “We know from our own professional experiences…
The Missing Memos
From ProPublica.com | Original Article with Interactive Timeline by Dan Nguyen and Christopher Weaver, ProPublica – January 28, 2009 7:00 am EST The Bush administration’s controversial policies on detentions, interrogations and warrantless…
Top US lawyer warns of deaths at Guantánamo
From Guardian.co.uk | Original Article By Mark Townsend and Paul HarrisThe Observer, Sunday 8 February 2009 Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer, will step through the grand entrance of the Foreign…
Still jobless Gonzales says he’s ‘casualty’ of the war on terror
From RawStory.com | Original Article The onetime Bush Attorney General admitted Tuesday that “skittish” law firms won’t hire him after his departure under fire from the Justice Department surrounding his role in…
Serving G. W. Bush with a Supoena for War Crimes
Open Letter to the Following: The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General; the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Official Opposition; Jack…
George Bush could be next on the war crimes list
From http://www.nzherald.co.nz/, Friday March 6, 2009: THE HAGUE – George W. Bush could one day be the International Criminal Court’s next target. David Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University,…