By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a surprise ending, a federal jury in New York on Wednesday acquitted the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court on all but one of 285 charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 terrorist bombings at U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam,…
The following was an email sent out to ACLU supporters. By Anthony D. Romero ACLU Director Planning to fly this holiday season? You’ve probably already braced yourself for long lines, delays and extra fees just to check your luggage. Unfortunately, you can also expect another hassle at the airport this year. 70 airports around the…
The “rule of law”—What does it mean? For most of history since its origin in ancient Greece it has meant that the law, however it was created, rules events and relationships not the whim of the sovereign or the government. But in this country rule of law has evolved through a gradual building process to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A draft by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that two prosecutors and an FBI agent in the Sen. Ted Stevens case engaged in misconduct,the Associated Press reported. AP, citing ” a lawyer familiar with the matter,” said the report found that prosecutors Joseph Bottini and James…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In wake of the video-gone-viral where a passenger warns airport security not to touch his “junk”, head of the Transportation Security Administration told a Senate committee Wednesday there would be no changes in the use of full-body scans and pat-downs for passengers, AOL News reports. John Pistole, formerly the…
(dea photo) By Allan Lengel For AOL News In the eyes of Russian officials, Viktor Bout is an innocent businessman being railroaded — quite contrary to the American view that he’s a cunning and dangerous arms dealer worthy of the moniker “Merchant of Death.” Clad in black T-shirt and black sweat pants, Bout briefly appeared…
