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The Washington Post is reporting:
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.
Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career Justice Department …

NPR is reporting today:
President Obama has approved the creation of a team of elite interrogators responsible for questioning top terrorism suspects, a White House spokesman confirmed Monday.
The unit will be stationed at the FBI headquarters in Washington and is not intended to take away all interrogation responsibilities from the CIA, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton said.
The suggestion to …

The New York Times is reporting:
The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.
The recommendation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, presented to Attorney General Eric …

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A CBS interview tells the story of yet another JAG officer, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, who did what he thought was right.

Karim Chrobog graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in 2001. And I am honored to say he was a student in my Constitutional Law of United States Foreign Relations in the Spring of 2000.
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“Left home at the age of seven/one year later I’m carryin’ an Ak-47.” For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a …

Much is being written about the soon-to-be released Inspector General’s report on the Central Intelligence Agency. Slated to be released on Monday, the report will allegedly disclose further abuses of detainees. For example, the New York Times reports:
C.I.A. jailers at different times held the handgun and the drill close to the detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, threatening to harm him if …

In 1994, it was my honor to move down the hall into the office occupied by renowned political philosopher and constitutional law scholar, Walter Berns. Berns at the time was retiring from Georgetown as a University Professor, but would continue as a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. (And even though Walter turned 90 this year, he is still …

The Masters of Science in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University has just announced the appointment of Professor Jay M. Parker as Visiting Professor and Chair of the Concentration in International Relations and Security. Dr. Parker comes to MSFS with a wealth of policy and academic experience. A retired colonel from the United States Army, Dr. Parker taught at the …