U.S. doesn't sign ban on disappearances
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Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.
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The United States hasn't issued any microchip-equipped passports yet, but as the Department of State tests different prototypes, the international standards for the passports are under fire from privacy advocates who worry the technology won't protect travelers from identity thieves.
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Two Britons wanted by the United States to face terrorism charges failed in a legal challenge on Thursday to stop their extradition because of fears they would be mistreated.
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BERLIN, Feb. 28 -- The State Department's top lawyer said Wednesday that the United States would refuse to extradite CIA officers who face kidnapping charges in Italy, warning that European criminal prosecutions of U.S. agents were harming transatlantic counterterrorism efforts.
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President Bush has failed to nominate candidates for a congressionally empowered privacy board intended to police anti-terrorism programs. Privacy groups charge that the administration fears the board's independence.
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens is forbidden from flying into the United States because of his alleged association with possible terrorists, US officials said Wednesday
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Scores of classified documents are missing from the Foreign Ministry, security police said, although they didn't say if a criminal investigation would be launched.
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Hawaii is one of 27 states that have no law banning racial profiling practices by law enforcement, Amnesty International USA said yesterday.
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Two Britons wanted by the United States to face terrorism charges failed in a legal challenge on Thursday to stop their extradition because of fears they would be mistreated.Comment
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The Department of Homeland Security violated a congressional funding ban when it continued to develop a computerized program that creates risk assessments of travelers entering and leaving the United States, according to lawmakers and privacy advocates.
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An American citizen who is under arrest in Belarus did not have diplomatic immunity, press secretary of the Belarussian Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinykh said in Minsk on Thursday.
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SHANGHAI - U.S. officials earlier this month denied visas to four representatives of a group developing China's WAPI (Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) security protocol for wireless networks, raising questions in China about the U.S. government's commitment to greater Chinese involvement in setting technical standards.
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The Bush administration opposed security measures for new microchip-equipped passports that privacy advocates contended were needed to prevent identity theft, government snooping or a terror attack, according to State Department documents released Friday.
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The United States has denied entry to   four Egyptian Muslim clerics sent to Florida to officiate at   religious events during the approaching fasting month of   Ramadan, Cairo airport officials said on Friday.
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The U.S. government has no "hard and fast" rules for deciding who gets put on the secret no-fly list of terror suspects barred from boarding airliners, the Transportation Security Administration said in court papers Friday.
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The Bush administration will delay for at least six months a rule that Americans present passports when crossing the U.S. border by land or sea, officials said Wednesday. The announcement marks the second time in a month that officials have scaled back security plans in response to complaints.
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Although faced with fresh evidence of global warming, the United States and other members the Arctic Council on Wednesday failed to make any recommendations