Senate to Pass Prosecutor Bill By John Stanton Roll Call Staff March 20, 2007 The Senate is poised to pass legislation today stripping President Bush’s authority to appoint interim U.S. attorneys, and Democrats already have begun using the scandal over the firing of eight prosecutors last year in fundraising letters and as a political tool,…
By Raymond Bonner, New York Times David Hicks, the first detainee to be formally charged under the new military tribunal rules at Guantanamo Bay, has alleged in a court document filed here that during more than five years in American custody he was beaten several times during interrogations and witnessed the abuse of other prisoners….
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…
