Top legal official says CIA interrogations legal
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday defended the Bush administration's strategy for interrogating terror suspects, calling it legal and critical to "continue gathering information about our enemies."
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The outgoing US homeland security chief says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.
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A Chinese human rights activist who worked as a researcher for the New York Times has been detained on charges of leaking state secrets, said his lawyer on Friday.
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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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A man who says he was questioned by  British intelligence while being held at the U.S. prison camp  in Guantanamo Bay is suing the British government for  exploiting his alleged torture there, his lawyer said on  Wednesday.
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The top human rights official at the United Nations urged the U.S. to abolish its use of CIA secret prisons for suspected terrorists, her spokesman said Friday.
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Attorneys for a former detainee at a secret CIA prison said in a court filing this week that intelligence officials had falsely claimed in public statements that his interrogations were not videotaped, that all videotaped interrogations stopped in 2002 and that only a small number of CIA detainees...
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The nation's intelligence chief says that waterboarding "would be torture" if used against him, or if someone under interrogation was taking water into his lungs.
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President Bush today signed an executive order governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects by the CIA and barring torture, degrading treatment and serious acts of violence, the White House announced.
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President George W. Bush's pick for top CIA legal officer came under fire from Senate Democrats on Tuesday for his role in an interrogation and detention program that brought accusations of torture against the United States.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - The White House said on   Thursday that a deal reached with lawmakers on the treatment of   detainees would allow the CIA's questioning of foreign   terrorist suspects to continue.
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The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's clearest confirmation of the technique's use.
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Fourteen "high-value" terrorism suspects who were transferred last year to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, from secret CIA prisons have been given legal forms to request lawyers, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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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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Many harsh interrogation techniques would be made lawful by legislation put forward by the Bush administration.
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The head of Italy&#039;s military intelligence  agency was questioned by prosecutors for the first time on  Saturday on suspicion of helping the CIA kidnap a terrorism  suspect in Milan, judicial sources said.