By Gethin Chamberlain, Sunday Telegraph Tony Blair faces the prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for alleged coalition war crimes in Iraq. The court’s chief prosecutor told The Sunday Telegraph that he would be willing to launch an inquiry and could envisage a scenario in which the Prime Minister and American President George W…
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee say the Bush administration needs to be more straightforward about the White House’s role in the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors. …Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the committee, said he had a long talk with Fielding on Friday and was reserving judgment. Specter said he would…
BBC News Poll March 19, 2007 Iraqis are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the future of their country and unhappy about their lives…Less than 40% of those polled said things were good in their lives, compared to 71% two years ago. However, a majority of those questioned said that, despite daily violence, they did not believe…
Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly admitted this month that it had ignored its own rules when demanding telephone and financial records about private citizens, a top official in that program warned the bureau about widespread lapses, his lawyer said on Sunday. The official, Bassem Youssef, who is in charge of the bureau’s Communications Analysis Unit,…
