The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report by released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
The views of former Justice lawyer John Yoo were deemed to be so extreme and out of step with legal precedents that they prompted the Justice Department's internal watchdog office to conclude last year that he committed "intentional professional misconduct" when he advised the CIA it could proceed with waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques against Al Qaeda suspects.
A New York high school student who was detained at an immigration courthouse in May last...
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After spending two consecutive Ramadans behind bars, Leqaa Kordia was freed from US immigration detention on...
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four...
