Lawmakers Troubled by &#39;Ghost Detainees&#39;
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WASHINGTON Sept. 10, 2004 - Congress may keep up the focus on the prison abuse scandal following the disclosure that the military has concealed as many as 100 &quot;ghost detainees&quot; from the Red Cross.
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A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office Â at the risk of alienating their constituents.
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WASHINGTON -- Army generals said yesterday at least two dozen unregistered ''ghost detainees&quot; 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.
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U.N. human rights experts Friday expressed concern about possible "irreversible psychiatric symptoms" developing among suspected terrorists entering a fourth year of virtual solitary confinement at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is facing a wave of new allegations that the abuse of foreign detainees in US military custody was more widespread, varied, and grave in the past three years than the Defense Department has long maintained.
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The United States may have kept up  to 100 "ghost detainees" in Iraq off the books and concealed  from Red Cross observers, a far higher number than previously  reported, an Army general told Congress on Thursday.
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It has not been a pretty sight on Capitol Hill in the waning hours of Republican control. Once-powerful lawmakers have been shown the door at their own offices, forced to crowd in a basement or other nooks to finish their work, if not their careers. The usual backslapping has given way to back pats as colleagues try to comfort losers who will soon be going home.
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Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts
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Frustrated with Congress's inability to pass an immigration overhaul bill, state legislatures are considering or enacting a record number of strongly worded proposals targeting illegal immigrants.
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House Republican leaders yesterday backed off a controversial proposal to allow deportation of foreign terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture, as lawmakers struggled to complete
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The United States may have kept up to 100 &quot;ghost detainees&quot; in Iraq off the books and concealed from Red Cross observers, a far higher number than previously reported, an Army general told Congress on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The latest Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib scandal is raising new questions about whether the CIA, operating outside military rules, contributed to the breakdown of military discipline at the prison.    The report cites the presence of unregistered "ghost detainees" who did not fall under the military's usual system of registration, interrogation and medical care...
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Now that Congress is on the verge of giving the President the legislation he wants on interrogating terror suspects, the partisan posturing over the bill is heating up
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For the first time since the Abscam scandal a quarter-century ago, multiple lawmakers face criminal and ethics investigations that are tarnishing Congress, already low on public approval.
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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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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The top U.N. official on torture said Friday that a bill before the U.S. Congress could deprive terrorism suspects of a fair trial and was especially troubling after the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.