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Court: Bush's attorney general can be sued over post-9/11 dententionsRebecca Boone Philadelphia Inquirer 09/05/2009 | U.S. unveils new rules on border searches of laptops Reuters 08/29/2009 |
 BOISE, Idaho - A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke yesterday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks. |  The Obama administration unveiled new rules on Thursday for searching computers and other electronic devices when people enter the United States, attempting to address concerns about violating privacy and constitutional rights. |
Senate Bill Would Give US President Emergency Control of Internet FOX News 08/29/2009 | CIA Will Cover Legal Fees; Policy Will Help Officers Ensnared in Interrogation ProbeWalter Pincus The Washington Post 08/28/2009 |
 A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties. |  CIA Director Leon Panetta decided Thursday that the agency will ensure legal representation for case officers who become caught up in investigations of alleged interrogation abuses of detainees at overseas locations, a senior intelligence official said. |
Young Afghan freed from Guantanamo to sue US governmentHEIDI VOGT AP 08/27/2009 | Iranian Prosecutors Seek to Shut 2 Reform PartiesMICHAEL SLACKMAN The New York Times 08/26/2009 |
 KABUL — The family of one of the youngest prisoners ever held at Guantanamo plans to sue the U.S. government to compensate him for mistreatment and an adolescence lost to nearly seven years in a cell, his lawyers said Thursday. |  CAIRO — Iran’s prosecutors moved Tuesday to shut down the nation’s two largest reform parties during a mass trial of former officials, journalists and academics all arrested and charged with conspiring to orchestrate a so-called velvet revolution in Iran. |
Prosecutor Named to Probe CIA Prisoner Abuses The New York Times 08/25/2009 | Youngest Guantanamo prisoner back in AfghanistanHEIDI VOGT AP 08/25/2009 |
 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday named a special prosecutor to probe CIA prisoner abuse cases, a move that could distract President Barack Obama from his drive to reform the healthcare system. |  KABUL — One of the youngest people ever held at Guantanamo was welcomed home Monday by Afghanistan's president and joyful relatives after almost seven years in prison — freed by a military judge who ruled he was coerced into confessing to wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade. |
Scottish justice minister defends his decision to free Lockerbie bomber Los Angeles Times 08/25/2009 | Malaysian model, mother to be caned for drinking beer in publicSaeed Ahmed CNN 08/21/2009 |
 Edinburgh, Scotland - Scotland's justice minister Monday defended his much-criticized decision to free the only man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing. |  A Malaysian model, who is set to become the first woman in the Southeast Asian country to be caned for drinking alcohol in public, wants her punishment carried out in public. |
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