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9 Sep 2007, 2:00 am
[JURIST] The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official website] relied on telecommunication companies to engage in national security surveillance [JURIST news archive] much broader in scope than previously acknowledged, the New York Times reported Sunday. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 9:11 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Monday denied [opinion, PDF] a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) [advocacy website] and the National Security Archive [official website] seeking access to e-mail records from the White House Office of Administration (OA) [ [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 9:44 am
[JURIST] The League of Arab States [official website, in Arabic] on Saturday adopted a resolution calling for the United Nations Security Council [official website] to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. [read post]
20 May 2009, 8:15 am
Suu Kyi met briefly with representatives of Thailand, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council [ [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 3:52 am
Bush [JURIST news archive] administration. [read post]
2 Jan 2007, 7:20 am
[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi [official website; BBC profile] said Tuesday that he would push the United Nations to adopt a universal ban on the death penalty [press release, in Italian] after this weekend's execution [JURIST report] of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 12:11 am
[JURIST] The Zimbabwean attorney general's office on Wednesday appealed to the nation's Supreme Court a Tuesday High Court ruling ordering the release of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party website] party treasurer general and cabinet member-designate Roy Bennett [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 6:00 am
A report by the National Security Archive found continued backlogs and little progress more than two years after President Barack Obama ordered the government to respond more quickly to public requests for records. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 7:11 am
[JURIST] The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] will not investigate allegations made last year that several large telephone companies handed over customer phone records to the government as part of the domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a letter [PDF text; press release] from FCC Chairman [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 11:23 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] Wednesday ruled [decision, PDF] that the National Security Agency (NSA) [JURIST news archive] does not have to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether it has used electronic surveillance methods to monitor their communications. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 1:45 pm
EULEX is a civilian mission under the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) replacing the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) [official website]. [read post]
16 Mar 2005, 1:14 am
[JURIST] Surrounded by heavy security, the 275 Iraqis elected in January [JURIST Hot Topic news archive] to the nation's first independent parliament in 50 years were sworn in Wednesday, even as several bombs were detonated in the area, attempting to disrupt the proceedings. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 12:24 pm
[JURIST] Mexico's "scorched-earth" campaign in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in crimes against humanity, including genocide, torture, executions and disappearances, according to a draft report [text, in Spanish] made public by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 7:48 am
[JURIST] A special security court in Bahrain [JURIST news archive] on Thursday sentenced one anti-government protester to death for killing a police officer, and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical personnel, including doctors, for providing treatment to injured protesters during the country's uprising. [read post]
26 Apr 2006, 12:44 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] has ordered [PDF text] US District Judge Leonie Brinkema to hold hearings on whether the National Security Agency [official website] used warrantless domestic wiretaps [JURIST news archive] to gather evidence against an Islamic scholar convicted of encouraging Muslims to join the Taliban. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 9:16 am
The November 27, 2006 issue of Cornell Law Library’s InSITE contain reviews of these legal sites: Campaign to Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action Free Press Legal Management Resource Center National Security Archive Read the full reviews and links to subscription info at the Law Librarian Blog. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 12:27 pm
The National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform [official websites] held a hearing [materials] on the legality of unmanned targeting. [read post]
23 May 2008, 1:55 pm
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Canada [official website] unanimously ruled [text] Friday that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] has a constitutional right to see confidential documents compiled by Canadian officials following interviews with Khadr in prison, but found that the government could withhold some information for national security purposes. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 8:59 am
Historians -- led by the National Security Archive at George Washington University -- have sought the opening of the record of the grand jury testimony in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 10:12 am
[JURIST] Legal experts inside and outside government are criticizing provisions of a draft bill [PDF text] circulated by the White House [JURIST report] Wednesday that, among other things, would allow US military commissions [JURIST news archive] to proceed against an accused "enemy combatant" without the defendant being present, if necessary to protect national security. [read post]
