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.
The United States has criticised its allies for failing to stop a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that...
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Six transgender Idahoans filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging the state’s new bathroom law, which...
After hours spent carefully preparing her cakes, Abrar Abdu stood stunned in silence before her oven. In...
