U.S. Memo Broadens Definition of Torture
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A prisoner doesn't have to undergo excruciating pain to be considered a victim of torture, the Justice Department now says. But it's not clear whether this revised, broader definition of torture will change the treatment of foreign detainees.
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey told skeptical senators today that it is "not an easy question' to determine whether waterboarding constitutes illegal torture under U.S. law, but he said there is no need to provide a clear answer because the tactic is no longer employed by the CIA.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has issued new rules to ensure that the CIA detention and interrogation program is in full compliance with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture, the U.S. spy agency said on Friday.
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The Bush Administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest tactics
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The U.S. military has begun an investigation into allegations by FBI agents of torture at the Guantanamo prison, officials said on Wednesday, and newly released documents showed 26 agents saw detainees abused.
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The U.S. military command that oversees detentions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has opened an internal investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse stemming from recently released FBI documents, officials said Wednesday.
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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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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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Six years after the Bush administration embraced harsh physical interrogation tactics, the taint of torture clings to American counterterrorism efforts.
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A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, quoted Tuesday by the New York Times, accuses the US military of using interrogation tactics that amount to torture against prisoners
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torture&quot; on prisoners at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times has reported. on the prisoners, the newspaper said on Tuesday.
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A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Red Cross officials have "made their view known" that the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to torture.
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Description: Documents newly released by the government reveal more charges of detainee abuse in Iraq. The files, obtained through a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act, document court-martials
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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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The US Justice Department revised a policy statement on torture, calling it ``abhorrent&#39;&#39; and illegal and defining it more broadly than an August 2002 memorandum that the Bush administration
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Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques -- "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning. But the White House will not go that far, saying it would be wrong to tell terrorists which practices they might face.
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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.