ACSBlog in Review: Feb. 4-8, 2008
Stories:
- A series of dispatches from Guantanamo Bay by Deborah Colson, a senior associate in the law and security program at Human Rights First, exploring solitary confinement, lessons from Guantanamo, and evidentiary abuse.
- The Department of Justice will not investigate people who engaged in waterboarding.
- The Justice Department reversed its discriminatory policy that treated DOJ Pride, an employee affinity organization, differently from other employee organizations.
- Americans who travel internationally are having data stored on their laptops and cell phones copied by the government even though there is no suspicion of wrongdoing.
- Recently proposed Small Business Administration regulations threaten to limit federal contracting set-asides for women-owned businesses.
- Protests by law students opposed to the visits of Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee and Attorney General Michael Mukasey at their schools.
Resources:
- A new study from Columbia Law School found that minority law school enrollment continues to decline.
- A White Paper on principles to guide the Office of Legal Counsel.
- ACS Board of Advisors member Judge Abner Mikva was profiled in Roll Call.
- This week’s congressional hearings.
- Information on the role of the Department of Justice.
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