Associated Press A federal judge ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against. U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy on Monday directed the Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether the…
By William Glaberson, New York Times The administration’s problem-plagued military commission system started up here again Thursday, but it began with contentious new claims that the war crimes cases are unfairly stacked against detainees. Military defense lawyers said that on the eve of the hearing, military prosecutors told them for the first time of a…
Michael Roston, Huffington Post A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private security contractors on a shorter legal leash. The White House and Justice Department are trying to limit the reach of U.S. criminal law on Blackwater and other private war contractors. With a…
David Edwards and Jason Rhyne, Raw Story A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a “secret room” to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann…
