He's ordered instead to "prosecute" targets from the comfort of an air-conditioned trailer, thousands of miles from the conflict he is fighting.
Furthermore, the subsequent CPS decision to prosecute, far from serving any public interest, endangers free expression and risks chilling democracy.
The new law gave prosecutors better tools to prosecute everything from check forgery to the misuse of someone's credit card to the kind of scams perpetrated by Massey and Melton.
The paper said that the justice officials had concluded that they had a "New York Times problem" – that is, if they went after Assange they would also have to prosecute journalists from the New York Times, the Guardian and others who worked on the WikiLeaks revelations.
The Obama administration tried to prosecute reporters from Fox and the New York Times for stories on government wrongdoing.
While the court noted that the Fifth Amendment allowed prosecution by two separate sovereigns, such as the federal government and a state government, it found that an Indian tribe derived its authority to prosecute offenders from the ICRA, which was federal law.
Dr. Xue was sentenced under a vague state secrets law, used in the past to prosecute cases ranging from military espionage to information leaks from state ministries.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leader of the governing Awami League, established the war crimes tribunal in 2010 to prosecute unpunished atrocities from the liberation war.
The judge's decision raises a question that many have asked quietly: Why was the Manhattan district attorney trying to prosecute a case from another county?
He was convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal, a local court set up by the government of Sheikh Hasina to prosecute men, largely from an Islamic opposition party, accused of murder, torture, rape and other wartime atrocities.
