Gonzales Disavows Torture Tactics
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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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Attorney General John Ashcroft defended FBI interviews of some political protesters around the country before last month's Democratic convention in Boston, which critics described as an intimidation tactic.
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The United Nations' torture investigator criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding and urged the U.S. to give up its defense of "unjustifiable" interrogation methods.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rejected growing calls for his resignation Tuesday as scores of newly released documents detailed a two-year campaign by the Justice Department and White House to purge federal prosecutors.
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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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 resignation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales does not mean an end to investigations into his actions during his tenure at the Justice Department.
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Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from detainees captured in ongoing wars.
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Embattled attorney general Alberto Gonzales finally calls it quits. But Justice Department investigators and Democrats in Congress aren't nearly done with him yet.
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The attorney general said Tuesday that the harsh C.I.A. interrogation technique known as waterboarding was not clearly illegal, and suggested that it could be used against terrorism suspects again.
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Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey refused to say Thursday whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, frustrating Democrats and potentially slowing his confirmation to head the Justice Department
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Attorney general refuses to declare waterboarding as torture, says CIA no longer uses technique.
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Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey refused to say Thursday whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, frustrating Democrats and potentially slowing his confirmation to head the Justice Department.
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Alberto Gonzales, the White House  counsel criticized for calling parts of the Geneva Conventions  on prisoner treatment "obsolete," will promise to abide by  anti-torture treaties if he is confirmed as attorney general,  according to a statement obtained on Wednesday.
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Alberto Gonzales, the White House  counsel criticized for calling parts of the Geneva Conventions  on prisoner treatment "obsolete," will promise to live by  anti-torture treaties if he is confirmed as attorney general,  according to a statement obtained on Wednesday.
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U.S. attorney general nominee  Alberto Gonzales faced blistering criticism on Thursday for his  role in shaping administration policies blamed for contributing  to the torture of terror suspects, which Democrats said had put  Americans at greater risk.
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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales accepted responsibility Tuesday for mistakes in the way the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but he rejected calls for his resignation.