Senators Clash With Nominee Over Torture and Limits of Law
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The attorney general nominee declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture.
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Senate Republicans rejected complaints that a new law that denies terrorism detainees the right to appeal their detention to federal courts ran against the nationâs principles.
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Democrats forced a delay in a Senate committee vote on Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be US attorney general, saying he has been evasive about his role in drafting White House policy on interrogating terror suspects.
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Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales is promising senators that he will abide by treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners, despite deriding the restraints as relics in 2002.
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The presidentÂs call for creating military tribunals to try terror suspects has erupted into a clash with some of the best-known Republican Party warriors.
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Defining limits on 'alternative' interrogation methods is major concern of key US lawmakers.
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A leading Senate Democrat asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters.
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Majority Democrats in the Senate are forcing their Republican colleagues on the record about whether embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should keep his job.
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On a cliffhanger vote, Senate   Republicans on Thursday beat a key challenge to a bill setting   rules for interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects   shortly after President George W. Bush went to Capitol Hill   urging them to deliver the bill.
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A US Democrat senator tells a hearing that President Bush's nominee for CIA director is too close to the White House.
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The Senate on Wednesday voted against considering a measure to restore to Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts.
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The US Senate passed controversial new rules on interrogating and prosecuting &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects, despite opponents who said the measure seriously curtails detainees' rights.
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Democrats running for president used a national meeting of trial lawyers on Sunday to attack other lawyers, pillorying Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and ridiculing recent decisions by the conservative-tilting Supreme Court.
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Attorney general nominee Alberto R. Gonzales told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that any form of torture by U.S. personnel is illegal, according to new documents released Tuesday.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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Democrats are sitting out an explosive debate on how to treat the nation's most dangerous terrorism suspects, bypassing a chance to challenge President Bush on a proposal that has infuriated international law experts and human rights groups.
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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.