Not news (how come there's no other way to mark an interesting link?) but important: finally, a bio of John Cooke, author of the idea that even the supreme power in a polity is subject to the law and to justice.(Read more...)
'I am more scared of the Ministry of Interior than I am of the insurgents,' says a police officer. The Interior Ministry is headed by Bayan Jabr, a member of the pro-Iranian Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The party's Badr Brigade runs anti-Sunni hit squads out of the ministry. (Read more...)
Patriot II nominally gives NSL recipients the right to challenge a gag order. If the government asserts an interest in national security, however, the court must accept it as conclusive. It creates an illusion of protection, Graves said. "You're given a right to challenge that means nothing." (Read more...)
