Justice Dept. memo redefines acts of torture
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The Justice Department late yesterday published a revised and expansive definition of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly
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The Justice Department drafted a memo that authorizes CIA to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation.
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Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from detainees captured in ongoing wars.
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President Bush yesterday signed legislation realigning the nation&#39;s spy agencies to meet the new terrorist threat, declaring the law represents the &quot;most dramatic reform&quot; of intelligence
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At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted, in March 2004, a confidential memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation -- a practice
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The Justice Department has acquiesced to Congressional demands to provide more details on the controversial spying program, with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales agreeing to hand over secret documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment, according to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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US justice department to investigate destruction of videotapes showing interrogation of terror suspects
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The House of Representatives has adopted a bill requiring US intelligence agencies to renounce all forms of torture by following explicit rules set out by the US military.
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At the urging of the White House,  congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month  that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme  interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, The  New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the
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The justice secretary unveils plans aimed at cutting reoffending rates and drug use in prisons.
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A Central Intelligence Agency review that grew out of the furor over abuses at Abu Ghraib prison now includes scrutiny of the agency&#39;s interrogation
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The compromise terrorism detainee bill limits interrogation abuses-and lets Bush set the limits
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"In a statement published on the department's Web site, the head of its Office of Legal Counsel declares that "torture is abhorrent both to American law and values and international norms" and goes on to reject a previous statement that only "organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death" constitute torture punishable by law."  Thank god!  Now the only torture that applies under U.S. law is listening to Ashcroft sing  "Let the Eagle Soar".  Certainly a fate worse than Abu Ghraib.
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US News, In a blow to the Justice Department&#39;s post-Sept. 11 powers, US District Judge Victor Marrero on Wednesday struck down the provision of the Patriot Act that let the FBI gather phone and Web customer