Obama opens door to probe
Shifting ground in the face of a growing uproar, President Barack Obama opened the door Tuesday to possible criminal prosecution of senior Bush administration officials who provided the legal rationale...
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Cartels exploit human cargo
Mexican drug cartels and their vast network of associates have branched out from their traditional business of narcotics trafficking and are now playing a central role in the multibillion-dollar-a-year business...
Sources: Justice Department is set to charge only person detained in this country by the military as an enemy combatant
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is preparing to bring criminal charges against the only person detained in this country by the military as an enemy combatant, possibly defusing a Supreme...
Military detainee’s case may be on move
The Justice Department is preparing to bring criminal charges against the only person detained in this country by the military as an enemy combatant, possibly defusing a Supreme Court dispute...
In ’99, Holder pushed clemency for terrorists
Eric Holder, the nominee for attorney general, repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of conditional clemency...
U.S. tip led to Germany arrests
A U.S. intelligence intercept of suspicious communications between Pakistan and Stuttgart was the initial break that ultimately led to the arrest this week of three suspected Muslim militants accused of...
Bush is taken to task on spying
Members of Congress demanded Friday that President Bush and his administration explain his decision to permit the country's most secretive intelligence agency to spy on American citizens in the United...
Rove will testify again in CIA probe
Presidential adviser Karl Rove has agreed to testify again to a grand jury in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity. It is unclear why Rove...
Bush: Iraq is base for global terror
President Bush on Thursday compared the war on terror to the struggle against communism and said Islamic extremists are determined to use Iraq as a staging ground to topple moderate...
U.S. hostage beheaded
Islamic radicals killed an American engineer held hostage in Saudi Arabia and then posted photographs of the man's severed head and bloodied corpse on a Web site Friday. Hours later,...