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24 Sep 2009, 5:33 am
Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris [official profile] said that the [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 8:22 am
Judge Vaughn Walker found in March that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless wiretapping program violated the rights of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation [JURIST news archive] under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance... [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 12:27 pm by Jaclyn Belczyk
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]
1 Dec 2011, 12:03 pm by Michael Haggerson
On Wednesday the Syrian National Council [official website], a civilian opposition group, agreed... [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 8:50 am by Peter Snyder
In addition, the 14 included former deputy interior minister, Lutfozzaman Babar, and a former director general of the National Security Intelligence, retired Major General Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 8:00 am
[JURIST] Myanmar's military government Friday rejected a UN Security Council [official website] denunciation [statement text; press release] of its use of violence against peaceful demonstrators and its accompanying call on the government to release political prisoners and negotiate with the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi [JURIST news archive; BBC profile]. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 7:58 am by Glenn Reynolds
ERIC HOLDER’S SHAMELESS SPIN: “Attorney General Eric Holder kicked off Sunshine Week 2012 by rehashing widely discredited statistics released by the Department of Justice after it was awarded the Rosemary Award by the National Security Archive for the worst open government performance by a federal agency in 2011.” The Rosemary Award is named for Rose Mary Woods. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 4:30 pm
[JURIST] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [advocacy website] on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; EFF press release] seeking injunctive, declaratory and equitable relief from the National Security Agency (NSA) [agency website] warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive], which gave government agencies access to over 300 terabytes of data concerning [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 2:49 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [decision; press release] that the Russian government was guilty of infringing on US missionary Patrick Nolan's religious freedoms and other human rights by expelling him from the country in 2002 under national security pretenses. [read post]
25 Mar 2006, 11:53 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] responded Friday to Democratic questions [PDF text] and Republican questions [PDF text] from members of the House Judiciary Committee [official website] regarding the Bush administration's domestic surveillance [JURIST news archive] program, maintaining that National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless wiretapping of [read post]
12 Jul 2009, 3:48 am
The report, prepared by inspector generals at the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Security [read post]
17 Jan 2006, 12:11 am
[JURIST] In the months following Sept. 11, the National Security Agency [official website] provided a "flood" of surveillance [JURIST news archive] information to the FBI, most of which proved to be worthless and a waste of FBI resources, and which prompted FBI doubts about the legality of the NSA's increasing role in domestic intelligence, the New York Times reported Tuesday. [read post]
8 Jun 2006, 3:55 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice [official website] has said it will seek to dismiss 20 lawsuits accusing telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth [corporate websites] of illegally providing customer phone records to the National Security Agency [official website] in conjunction with the NSA's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 6:51 am by Lawrenz Fares
The order states that the prior executive order [JURIST news archive] barring refugee admissions from a number of Islamic nations is no longer in effect and "the Secretary of State may resume travel of qualified and appropriately vetted refugees into the United States, and the Secretary of Homeland Security may resume adjudicating applications for refugee resettlement. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 8:59 am by Jennie Ryan
[JURIST] A special security court in Bahrain [JURIST news archive] heard the appeals of jailed anti-government protesters on Tuesday. [read post]
20 Jun 2005, 2:36 am
The Sudanese court was formed by the national Sudanese government after the UN Security Council asked the International Criminal Court [ [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 12:37 pm
Mauritius joins three [Reuters report] of the region's nations - Kenya, Tanzania and Seychelles - in its asserted willingness to take legal action. [read post]
25 Jul 2006, 10:58 am
Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website], chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday defended his proposal to subject the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] to review by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FJC backgrounder], saying that the court is well suited to consider the program because of its "expertise" and [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 4:21 am
[JURIST] The interim government of Bangladesh [JURIST news archive] said Tuesday it plans to set up a national human rights commission in the country to deal with human rights problems there. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 1:47 am
The National Security Archive has updated its story here. [read post]