Jason Rhyne, Raw Story A former Marine Corps prosecutor was set to testify before Congress on Thursday that harsh interrogation techniques had tainted his case against an alleged Al Quaeda terrorist — until a last minute email from the Pentagon told him not to. Lt. Col. Stuart Crouch, a former lawyer with the Marines now…
A Firsthand Experience Before Decision on Torture By Scott Shane, New York Times The debate over torture here can get heated, as it did this month when a dispute over the legal status of waterboarding threatened to sink the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general. Still, it usually remains a matter of strictly…
By Manu Raju, The Hill The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is drafting a compromise to resolve the thorny issue of whether to provide retroactive liability protections for the phone companies that allegedly participated in the Bush administration’s secret wiretapping program. At a markup on a bill to overhaul the 1978 Foreign Intelligence…
No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush’s company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex. Mr. Higgins stated his plans in a letter to the group sent last week. Members of the group and other critics in Texas contend that school districts are buying…
