Transparency and accountability are absent, and some question the legal basis of the attacks.
The Americans and British cited Security Council resolutions as the legal basis of their invasion.
He was unable to explain the legal basis for Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines.
The decision provided the legal basis for the enormous expansion of federal power in the 20th century.
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"It is critical for the committee's oversight function to fully understand the legal basis for all intelligence and counter-terrorism operations, " she said.
This is the bill which parliament must pass every five years to renew the legal basis for maintaining the Army, Navy and RAF.
The legal basis to detain enemy combatants under the law of war remains the same, meaning they can be held until the end of hostilities.
Even UN Security Council Resolution 1244 from 1999, which the KLA claims provides the legal basis for Kosovar sovereignty, explicitly recognizes Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo.
What was Mr. Wilner doing at Gitmo more than two years before Rasul established the legal basis for lawyers getting access to detainees inside the camp?
MEPs are angry that home affairs ministers agreed on 7 June to change the legal basis of the Schengen area, thus removing MEPs' powers to monitor borders.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy once again seized on the row over the legal basis for the Iraq war - the issue which simply will not go away.
This is so because the legal basis for Jewish settlement in the territories is the same as the basis on which the State of Israel was declared in 1948.
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"The legal basis of this goes back many, many years when U.S. citizens would go and fight for foreign nations that were engaging in combat with the United States, " Rogers said.
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And it was amazing to me, then and now, that something so important to the NSA's mission as the programs in issue were - the legal basis for them were kept from them.
Transferring detainees to Thomson, Illinois only creates a "Gitmo North" - As indefinite detention would continue for 50-100, those too dangerous to release yet not prosecutable, the legal basis to detain remains the same.
Few, if any, in Congress who voted for the authorization understood at the time that they were voting for a virtual blank check that has provided the legal basis for more than a decade of war.
He also said a 1997 case involving the Miami mayor's race, where the entire absentee ballot pool was thrown out because some ballots were fraudulently cast, provides Clark with the legal basis for invalidating all the absentee votes in Seminole County.
Of course, since the legal basis for the ruling indicated that the power to regulate preparers had to come from Congress and not the IRS, I asked whether Alban thought that Congress might follow-up with a bill to do just that.
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And then on Wednesday, November 14, Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post reported that a secret Presidential Policy Directive (PPD 20) had been signed that grants the Department of Defense the legal basis it needed to engage in offensive network attacks to protect itself.
Not only did the chief justice revive states' rights in the Medicaid ruling, he also rejected the principal legal basis the Obama administration invoked to justify the health-care overhaul, Congress's constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce.
The attorney general says the international legal basis of these actions was uncertain.
"Although the actual arbitration proceedings are the subject of confidentiality, as night follows day what's in that legal document at the High Court will form the basis for the legal argument at the arbitration, " said Cramer.
Obama last month ordered a prompt and thorough review of the "factual and legal basis" for the continued detention of al-Marri.
President Obama last month ordered a prompt and thorough review of the "factual and legal basis" for the continued detention of al-Marri.
Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's top Sunni authority, and the Higher Shi'a Islamic Council both said that they opposed the draft on the basis that Sharia law protected the status of women, and should remain the basis for governing legal issues related to Muslim families.
However, the case has been settled on the basis of legal advice.
They insisted that the Service had no legal basis in this case to waive the usual requirement that withdrawn IRA money be rolled into an eligible IRA within 60 days.
Firstly, there are serious doubts about the lack of any legal basis for such a veto in the Government of Wales Act - a concern also voiced by an expert committee of MPs and Lords last week, he said.
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