U.S. Declines to Join Accord on Secret Detentions
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PARIS, Feb. 6 -- Representatives from 57 countries on Tuesday signed a long-negotiated treaty prohibiting governments from holding people in secret detention. The United States declined to endorse the document, saying its text did not meet U.S. expectations.
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THE United States helped negotiate the protocol under former President Bill ClintonÂ¡Â¯s administration. But President George W. Bush ditched the agreement shortly after coming
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SAN FRANCISCO - A military judge on Wednesday dropped an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, all but resolving a case that once carried the potential for the death penalty.    The judge's acceptance of the plea deal in the case of Senior Airman Ahmad Al Halabi marks the third Guantanamo spy case to fall apart this year, despite vows by Attorney General John Ashcroft and military officials to prosecute the men for jeopardizing the nation's security...
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The State Department on Monday rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting."
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The Bush administration urged  Congress last year to drop a legislative proposal that would  have curbed the ability of U.S. intelligence to use extreme  interrogation tactics, the White House acknowledged on  Thursday.
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The Bush administration urged  Congress to drop a legislative proposal that would have curbed  the ability of U.S. intelligence to use extreme interrogation  tactics, the White House acknowledged on Thursday.
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The Justice Department said President Bush could ignore domestic and international prohibitions against torture in the name of national security.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - The U.S. military  dropped spy charges on Wednesday against a Syrian-American  airman who worked as a translator at the detention center at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the latest setback to the Bush  administration's war on terror.
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President Bushâs nominee for attorney general declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture or to be illegal when used against terrorist suspects.
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President Bush's disclosure that terrorism suspects had been held in CIA-run prisons drew approval Wednesday from activists and defense attorneys, but some called for details on the secret lockups.
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Despite its pledges to stay engaged with the world, the United States is gradually retreating from the UN-sponsored system of international law, having ratified only about 29 percent of existing multilateral agreements, according to a new study.
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The agreement will allow the U.S. to continue a once secret program to obtain banking records from a consortium for use in counterterrorism investigations.
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The United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan that would take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said Friday that it was not meant as an alternative to the detainee facility in Cuba.
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GENEVA -- The international Red Cross said Tuesday that US officials have failed to address concerns about some significant problems in the treatment of terror suspects detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The White House has dropped its insistence on redefining the obligations of the United States under the Geneva Conventions, members of Congress said.
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The United States should close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and avoid using secret detention facilities in the war on terror, the U.N. panel that monitors compliance with the world&#039;s anti-torture treaty said Friday.