Plan to Keep Detainees in Jail for Life Criticized by Senators
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge.
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Senate Democrats are backing a bill that would grant new rights to terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including access to a lawyer regardless of whether the prisoners are put on trial.
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Guantanamo prisoners and other foreigners got a step closer to regaining the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts in a bill approved in a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.
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U.S. Republican and Democratic  lawmakers on Wednesday launched an effort to help the 650,000  people released each year from the world's largest prison  system, to stay out of jail.
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The proposal reflects a growing belief that the use of the detention facility is tainting the image of the U.S.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguing on Capitol Hill on the legal rights of detainees.
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US President George W. Bush has urged the Senate to follow the example set by the House of Representatives a day earlier and pass a controversial bill setting out rules for detaining and prosecuting &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects.
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Those inconvenient detainees. Torture them and they complain. Let the go, and they sue you. So much for appreciating Guantanamo hospitality.
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Defying President George W. Bush, a   group of Senate Republicans on Wednesday said they would press   ahead with legislation to try foreign terrorism suspects that   the White House said would stifle CIA intelligence-gathering.
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Controversial bills proposed new penalties (including jail time) for copyright violations.
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U.S. Attorney General nominee  Alberto Gonzales came under blistering criticism from Democrats  on Thursday at a Senate confirmation hearing focused largely on  his role in formulating administration policies blamed for  contributing to the torture of terror suspects.
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Word that a U.S. Army reservist was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison drew scorn Sunday from Iraqis who thought he should have been tried here and punished with death.
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A key Democratic senator asked the Justice Department on Monday for an update on its progress prosecuting government employees who were accused in at least 17 cases of abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Senate voted on Wednesday against considering a measure to give Guantanamo detainees and other foreigners the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts.
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Â· Civil liberties activists condemn proposalÂ· Conservatives back other counter-terror measures
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Pentagon planning to charge six detainees in terror attacks and seek the death penalty.
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Each day, detainees in GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, argue before anonymous military officers that they should not be there. The hearings have come under heavy criticism.