2008 World Report briefing, Human Rights Watch, HRW Director Kenneth Roth, January 31, 2008 [introducing HRW's latest annual report on human rights around the world]. Flash, 12 minutes. Watch recorded video.
Oversight Hearing on Reform of the State Secrets Privilege, US House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, January 29, 2008. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 35 mins. Watch recorded video.
Oversight of the US Department of Justice, US Senate Judiciary Committee, January 30, 2008 [featuriung testimony by Attorney General Michael Mukasey on waterboarding and other subjects]. RealPlayer, 1 hr 48 mins. Watch recorded video. Additional information here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Executive Order 13457, "Protecting American Taxpayers from Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks," President George W. Bush, January 29, 2008 [directing heads of federal agencies to take "all necessary steps" to ignore earmarks that are not explicitly written into law]. Windows Media Player, 3 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Where Do We Go From Here? Destruction of the CIA Interrogation Tapes and Oversight of the War on Terror, American Constitution Society, January 25, 2008. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 39 mins. Watch recorded video.
State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush, January 28, 2008 [saying that if Congress does not reduce the level of earmarks by 50 percent in next year's appropriations process, he will veto any bill not meeting that goal, and calling on Congress to extend the Protect America Act]. RealPlayer, 54 mins. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Address to the Sixth Special Session on Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories , Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, January 23, 2008. RealPlayer, 8 minutes [saying that Israel's policy of collective punishment, disproportionate use of force and targeted killings, coupled with the Palestinian militant practice of indiscriminate firings of bombs and rockets, has led to the current crisis in the Gaza Strip]. Watch recorded video. Transcript available here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Guantanamo 6th anniversary protests, Amnesty International, January 11, 2008 [footage from worldwide protests against the Guantanamo Bay prison on its sixth anniversary]. Flash, 4 minutes. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Making REAL ID Real: Implementing National Standards, Heritage Foundation, January 16, 2008 [discussing national implementation of the Real ID Act]. Windows Media Player, 1 hr 17 mins. Watch recorded video. Additional information here.
Guantanamo sixth anniversary protest demonstration at the US Supreme Court, Witness Against Torture, January 11, 2008. Flash, 7 minutes. Additional information here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
Post-Kelo Reform, Federalist Society, January 8, 2008 [exploring changes to eminent domain law in the wake of the 2005 US Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. City of New London]. Flash, 1 hr. 33 mins.
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2008 World Report briefing [HRW]
