Ashcroft Opposes Commuting &#39;American Taliban&#39;s&#39; Sentence
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Attorney General John Ashcroft is opposing an appeal by John Walker Lindh, the so-called &quot;American Taliban.
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An Afghan court sentenced three Americans to between eight and 10 years in prison for illegally running a private jail and torturing suspects in a &quot;private war on terror&quot;.
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The hypocrisy is unpardonable. President Bush's decision to commute the sentence of a convicted liar brought out the worst in both parties and politics.
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The House Armed Services chairman, who advocates a tough stance on terrorist prisoner suspects, warned Wednesday against being too lax in prosecuting detainees.
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Lawyers for three Americans charged with torturing suspects in a private jail during a freelance hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan appealed Wednesday to the US ambassador to help stop their trial.
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Â· President under attack for commuting jail sentence  Â· Spokesman will not say if Cheney spoke up for aide
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Departing Attorney General John Ashcroft, dealt several court defeats over US anti-terrorism policies, on Friday derided what he called judges&#39; second-guessing of the president&#39;s decisions.
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The United States called on Taliban guerrillas to lay down their arms Thursday, saying Afghans had voted against violence and those who gave up their insurgency would not be punished unless they were guilty of major crimes.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the Bush administration to define it as torture.
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An American accused of torturing terror suspects in Afghanistan entered that country using a letter from a U.S. embassy official identifying him as a government contractor, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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The US Senate Wednesday narrowly rejected an attempt to allow &#39;war on terror&#39; prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detention in federal courts.
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Attorneys for John Walker Lindh, the suburban Californian convicted of fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, asked President Bush yesterday to commute Lindh's 20-year prison sentence.
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The administration should bring its policies on prisoners in the war on terror into compliance with the Geneva Conventions. A prosecution before the first American military commission since World War II was
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President Bush's statement on his commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, from the Associated Press:
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NEW YORK, June 14 -- A former detainee is allowed to keep former attorney general John D. Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and others in a lawsuit that alleges  prisoners were mistreated and subject to ethnic and religious discrimination after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a federal ap...
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Outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday, in a stinging rebuke, accused federal judges of jeopardizing national security with rulings that contradict President Bush&#39;s constitutional authority to make wartime decisions.
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Some reaction to President Bush's decision Monday to commute the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case.