Lawmakers Troubled by &#39;Ghost Detainees&#39;
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Congress may keep up the focus on the prison abuse scandal following the disclosure that the military has concealed as many as 100 &quot;ghost detainees&quot; from the Red Cross.
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Detainees flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts obtained by The Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt...
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The Judiciary Committee sought to slow down the effort to pass legislation on the treatment of terror suspects.
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Uncooperative Guantanamo Bay detainees  were regularly subjected to highly abusive treatment over a  long period of time, unidentified guards at the U.S. military  base, intelligence agents and others who worked in the prison  told The New York Times.
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As the Bush administration accelerates discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a growing chorus of Democrats on Capitol Hill is imploring the State Department not to transfer detainees to countries that may torture them.
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Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.
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The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers &amp;#151; places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated.
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Defining limits on 'alternative' interrogation methods is major concern of key US lawmakers.
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A report that the CIA secretly transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation without notifying the Red Cross drew criticism Sunday from key members of Congress.
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A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation yesterday that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what it means to be an "enemy combatant" against the United States, a measure designed to challenge laws ushered in by the...
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The Sept. 11 commission's call for reforming congressional oversight of intelligence and homeland security faces powerful resistance in Congress, with some key lawmakers all but declaring it dead on arrival.
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Uncooperative Guantanamo Bay detainees were regularly subjected to highly abusive treatment over a long period of time, unidentified guards at the U.S. military base, intelligence agents and others who worked in the prison told The New York Times.
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office Â at the risk of alienating their constituents.
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The most senior Islamist terrorists captured by the United States are being held in a secret &quot;ghost&quot; prison in Jordan run by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a report by a respected security expert.
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Detainees held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay are likely take their legal fight back to the US Supreme Court, but the new Congress may step in to give the terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in US courts.