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Santa Fe New Mexican
April 22, 2018
In 2003 my husband, Joe Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times criticizing the Bush White House's central premise for the invasion of Iraq: Saddam Hussein represented an imminent nuclear threat. Joe wrote that the intelligence had been distorted and “cherry-picked” inÃâà...
Yahoo News
April 22, 2018
Baghdad (AFP) - Fourteen officials from Saddam Hussein's regime are still in Iraq's prisons, 15 years after the late dictator was deposed by a US-led ... All detained former regime officials are being held in Nasiriyah prison in the country's south, according to Badia Araf, a lawyer representing some of theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2018
According to his lawyers, Doe claims he was kidnapped by Islamic State and denies fighting alongside the militants. ... Force passed in 2001 and 2002 — one approved in response to 9/11, the other designed to put pressure on Saddam Hussein — can be stretched to justify current military operations.
Business Insider
March 23, 2018
"John Bolton was by far the most dangerous man we had in the entire eight years of the Bush administration," Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, tweeted on March 16. "Hiring him as the president's top national security advisor is an invitation to war,Ãâà...
ACLU (blog)
December 31, 1999
For more than seven months, the Trump administration has been unlawfully detaining an American citizen in Iraq. Rather than charge him with a crime or set him free, the government wants to transfer him, involuntarily, to a third country. The ACLU is going to court on Thursday to stop the transfer and fightÃâà...
Yahoo News
December 31, 1999
Since February, the singer's lawyer, long-time assistant and publicist have all jumped ship, according to the BBC and The Rolling Stone. The singer's executive assistant Diana Copeland told the BBC that she resigned from her position April 1. On April 9, a 19-year-old woman filed a criminal complaintÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
He did not mention the UN Charter or offer a legal rationale to support his argument, but he did cite as "precedents," Israel's preventive strike on Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor in 1981, and Israel's preventive strike on Bashar Assad's "top-secret" nuclear reactor in 2007. All the U.S. has done in Trump'sÃâà...
