by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer Tomorrow, November 18, Attorney General Eric Holder will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, likely facing questions regarding and criticism of his decision to abandon military tribunals for five 9/11 terrorists in favor of using the...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer The House Judiciary Committee recently voted to reauthorize certain expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act as part of the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009. The bill, H.R. 3845, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, proposes privacy protections...
by John Thorlin | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer On October 29, 2009, Harvard Law School Prof. Alan Dershowitz appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to appeal the conviction of Johan Tarculovski. Tarculovski was charged...
by Mat Trachok | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Mat Trachok, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer According to surgeon and best-selling author Robin Cook, the world is at risk from an imminent, serious pandemic. Cook has written a new medical thriller entitled Plague, which he hopes will raise consciousness about...
by NSJ Staff Writer | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
By NSJ Staff Writer The November 8th shootings at Ft. Hood are less than a week old, and yet investigators and pundits are already interpreting what they see to be their deep-seated meaning. Officially, after two days of investigation, the FBI and the Army...
by Jonathan Abrams | Nov 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Jonathan Abrams, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer On October 14th, a Canadian Federal Court judge dismissed the Canadian government’s case against a Montreal resident arrested under a controversial deportation program. In 2003, Adil Charkaoui was arrested under a security...