Mukasey refuses to judge waterboarding
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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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A military judge has refused a Pentagon request to reconsider his dismissal of charges against a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan.
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A growing number of Senate Democrats who had previously praised attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey are now focusing on his refusal to answer a question about torture as a pivotal issue for his confirmation.
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Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, told senators Thursday he's resistant to passing a law shielding reporters from being forced to reveal their sources, saying it would be "much easier" to fix internal Justice Department practice if need be.
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Newspaper lawyers asking that a military hearing on the alleged suffocation death of an Iraqi general be held in open court say the Army has refused to let them see evidence on why the session should be closed.
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Senate Democrats seeking the presidency said Tuesday they will vote against Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey unless he says unequivocally that waterboarding amounts to torture.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday  refused to reconsider its ruling that allowed the U.S.  government to move forward with its death penalty case against  accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
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A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he might consider opposing Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general if the former judge says waterboarding is not torture.
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Michael Mukaseyâs handling of the cases of witnesses taken into custody in post-9/11 investigations produced some rare criticism of his performance on the bench.
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US President George Bush refuses to rule out pardoning ex-White House aide Lewis Libby, convicted of perjury.
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A federal judge refused Tuesday to acquit Jose Padilla and two co-defendants on terrorism support charges, clearing the way for defense lawyers to begin presenting their case this week.
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The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance from Democrats today.
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The judge who dismissed a second capital murder case against John Allen Muhammad will not reconsider his conclusion the convicted sniper was denied a speedy trial in the slaying of an FBI analyst.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer's former communications director refused on Monday to obey a subpoena for testimony and documents sought by a state Senate committee investigating an alleged plot to smear the state's top Republican.
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National security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Sunday denied assertions in a new book that she and other top Bush administration officials ignored warnings about the abuse of prisoners at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding Â a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror Â qualifies as torture.
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A US military judge denied a request to call US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to testify in an abuse case against former Abu Ghraib prison guards.