Torture Stance Raises Doubts on Mukasey
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A growing number of Senate Democrats who had previously praised attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey are now focusing on his refusal to answer a question about torture as a pivotal issue for his confirmation.
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The House Armed Services chairman, who advocates a tough stance on terrorist prisoner suspects, warned Wednesday against being too lax in prosecuting detainees.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate the destruction of CIA videotapes showing agents interrogating terrorism suspects. The tapes reportedly showed rough interrogation techniques of two alleged al Qaeda members, including the use of "waterboarding."
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen
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WASHINGTON â Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey got a harsh reception on Wednesday from senators of both parties, who used his appearance on Capitol Hill to accuse the Bush administration yet again of contempt for the rule of law and American values. But they told Mr. Mukasey he was a big improvement over his predecessor, Alberto R. Gonzalez.
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The nation's spy chief on Sunday would not identify what CIA interrogators are allowed to do in getting information from terror suspects, but tried to assure critics that torture is not condoned or used.
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President Bush's choice for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, embraced some of the administration's most controversial legal positions yesterday, suggesting that Bush can ignore surveillance statutes in wartime and avoiding a declaration that simulated drowning constitutes torture under U.S....
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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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A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
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Americans are torn by debate these   days in Washington over how to treat terrorism suspects. They   feel the United States should set a good example and not   torture. But what if it will save lives?
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As debate about the future of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay heats up, a leading defense lawyer questions whether closing Gitmo would make any difference as to the rights of the detainees.
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White House counsel Alberto Gonzales  will be grilled over what critics call his "appalling" role in  policies blamed for abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and  Guantanamo Bay, when Senate hearings begin on Thursday over his  nomination to be U.S. Attorney General.
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When a Federal Bureau of Investigations officer says interrogations of Iraqi prisoners are too rough, that the techniques amount to âtorture,â youâd think somebody would listen.
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WASHINGTON Alberto Gonzales&#39; road to confirmation as the first Hispanic US attorney general may run through two controversial places -- Iraq&#39;s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and the death row of Texas.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the Bush administration to define it as torture.
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said this morning that waterboarding was deemed legal by the Justice Department at the time it was used by the CIA on three al-Qaeda captives, and as a result the Justice Department "cannot possibly" investigate whether a crime occurred.
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U.S. intelligence chief Mike McConnell said in a magazine interview that waterboarding would be torture if it was used against him personally, but stopped short of condemning the controversial interrogation technique.