Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo absent from US presidential campaign debate
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The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and detention without trial of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay may still draw headlines in US newspapers but the subjects have been notably absent from the White House race.
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Eight Republicans argued over the Iraq war and immigration before a crowd of 3,600 New Hampshire voters. Missing in action: actor-politician Fred Thompson, who skipped the debate in favor of announcing his candidacy in the more comfortable setting of late-night TV.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- The defense for Specialist Charles Graner Jr. rested its case yesterday without the accused ringleader of abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison taking the stand.
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VIENNA, Austria (CBS) The possible disappearance of nearly 400 tons of powerful explosives from a known Iraqi arms depot that US troops did not guard became fodder for the presidential campaign Monday.
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The leading Republican presidential candidates are skipping a televised forum on Thursday that is focused on issues important to black and Hispanic voters.
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WASHINGTON/BOSTON  - President Bush and Democratic  challenger John Kerry muted their war of words on Saturday to  commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks in ways that managed to  underscore their campaign themes.
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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war reclaimed the spotlight in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a set withdrawal of U.S. troops -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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WASHINGTON - Army generals said Thursday at least two dozen unregistered "ghost detainees" may have been held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but they don't know the number for certain because the CIA did not cooperate with their investigation into abuses.    Senators said the CIA's lack of cooperation was unacceptable and that they would press the agency to provide the Army with the documents it needs...
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he has been ordered not to comment on the presidential elections, but it hasn't kept him from defending the war in Iraq in interviews with radio talk show hosts in battleground states.
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The allegations that British troops have been torturing Iraqi prisoners have not yet had the impact in the Arab world that the Abu Ghraib scandal did.
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In the thick of an election campaign, President Bush has revived and retooled his argument that the U.S. must fight terrorists overseas or face them here. Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, some GOP candidates are borrowing Bush's line.
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WASHINGTON - Senators examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal criticized the CIA on Thursday for failing to provide Army investigators with documents on unregistered "ghost detainees."   At a hearing, lawmakers indicated their frustration that Army generals who investigated the prison abuses couldn't put a specific figure on the number of ghost detainees and could only give a range of up to 100 detainees, though they said it was more likely closer to two dozen.   "It's a very difficult question for us to answer, Mr...
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The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday.
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TAMPA - President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry returned to the campaign trail yesterday and resumed the intense dispute over the Iraq war and homeland security that dominated the first presidential debate Thursday night.
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MANNHEIM, Germany -- The US military judge hearing charges of prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison rejected a request yesterday for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to submit to an interview, but said he would reconsider if the defense could show a Rumsfeld link to the case.
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New documents showing widespread  U.S. abuse of prisoners overseas did not provoke the intense  backlash of the Abu Ghraib photos but could prove more damaging  at confirmation hearings for President Bush's attorney general  nominee, rights activists say.
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The candidates are debating the Iraq war, corruption in Congress, and a state scandal - but not immigration.