Senate Panel Questions C.I.A. Detentions
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The Senate Intelligence Committee rejected by one vote a proposal that would have cut money for the C.I.A.âs secret interrogation program for terrorism suspects.
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A House of Representatives subcommittee has scheduled a hearing to examine the NFL Players Association's procedures for disciplining agents.
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Lawyers representing nine former  Iraqi prisoners on Tuesday asked a federal judge in San Diego  to ensure that U.S. defense contractor CACI International  trains the interrogators it sends to Iraq in international laws  against torture.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge.
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Anti-terrorism police question one man and five others are held on possible immigration breaches.
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U.S. military panels reviewed the legal status of two prisoners Saturday, though one man refused to attend his hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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President Bush's nominee for homeland security secretary advised the C.I.A. on the legality of coercive interrogation methods.
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Panel wants to hear from two investigators; others are due to say if they'll appear at a hearing next week.
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Asked to investigate Sen. Larry Craig's conduct in an airport men's room and the aftermath, the Senate's ethics committee must judge him on an intentionally vague standard
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Democrats raised new questions Tuesday about whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have known about FBI abuses of civil liberties when he told a Senate committee that no such abuses occurred.
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. national intelligence director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions Wednesday on whether waterboarding is torture despite his promise last year to study whether it is illegal.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush&#39;s choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to US intelligence services.
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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has demanded a legal review of the CIA's detention and interrogation program for terrorism suspects as part of its version of the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill.
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Two senators said on Sunday they  were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials  secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq  in the last six months, possibly violating international  treaties.
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A move to give terrorism suspects the right to challenge their detentions in federal court fell short in the Senate today, even though it had majority support.