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.
Israeli media outlets on Sunday published a video showing National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visiting...
Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has explained his own strategy more candidly than any critic...
Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank...
Ahmed Zeidat was tending his olive trees in the occupied West Bank when a group of...
