By Toby Dershowitz, 27 January 2015
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on January 28 for Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become attorney general of the United States. The hearing represents … Read More ...
By Charlie Devereux, 26 January 2015
Argentina’s government faced criticism for publishing the travel details of a journalist who said he fled the country in fear of his life after breaking the news of the death of a prosecutor in … Read More ...
24 January 2015
The suspicious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman has reverberated nationally and internationally. Several news outlets in Latin America and around the world discussed the news and the continued advances in the investigation. There has been such shock … Read More ...
24 January 2015, from the print edition
THE slogan “Yo soy Nisman” (“I am Nisman”) appeared first as a Twitter hashtag and then on placards held aloft this week by demonstrators outside the residence of Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de … Read More ...
By Gabriel Martínez Bracesco, 24 January 2015
The journalist who first reported information of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman over Twitter left the country overnight “out of fear”. Damian Pachter, an editor of the newspaper Buenos Aires Herald, told … Read More ...
By Taos Turner, 23 January 2015
President Cristina Kirchner stunned Argentina on Thursday by saying that a prosecutor who had accused her of a coverup had been killed, reversing her position that he had committed suicide.
The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, … Read More ...
By Matthew Levitt, 22 January 2015
On Jan. 14, Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a legal complaint formally accusing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman of trying to cover up Iran’s role in the 1994 … Read More ...
By Adam Chandler, 22 January 2015
The initial government reports declaring the death of Alberto Nisman to be a suicide arrived suspiciously fast.
For starters, Nisman, a high-ranking Argentine prosecutor, had left no suicide note. More curiously, his cause of … Read More ...