US 'should not rule out torture'
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The outgoing US homeland security chief says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.
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A Kuwaiti heading a group lobbying for the release of his countrymen being held as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, urged their U.S. captors on Sunday not to torture prisoners.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 1  - US Navy Secretary Gordon England said Friday that an allegation of torture by a detainee at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will be investigated.
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The United States is  exposing deportees to the risk of torture by accepting the word  of foreign governments that prisoners won&#39;t be tortured if sent  home, lawyers for an Egyptian detainee argued on Thursday.
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The United States has manifestly failed to uphold obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading behavior in the &quot;war on terror&quot; launched after Sept.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected demands from congressional leaders to share information about the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes. In a response letter, he reminded people that, "At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would...resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice."
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The United States wants to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay but needs assurances that detainees won&#039;t pose a security risk or face torture when they&#039;re sent to other countries, a senior U.S. State Department official said Monday.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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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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Posted October 27, 2004 -- A leading human rights organization has asked the next president of the United States to review Americaâs policies on interrogation, given the âtorture, cruelty and degradationâ associated with the war in Iraq.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday it has given the Bush administration a confidential report critical of US treatment of terror suspects detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The Bush administration asserted in federal court yesterday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and three former military officials cannot be held liable for the alleged torture of nine Afghans and Iraqis in U.S. military detention camps because the detainees have no standing to sue in U.S....
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Defining limits on 'alternative' interrogation methods is major concern of key US lawmakers.
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WASHINGTON -- October 27 -- The two main candidates in the US presidential election should commit to working to prevent any torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in US custody.
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The US Justice Department revised a policy statement on torture, calling it ``abhorrent&#39;&#39; and illegal and defining it more broadly than an August 2002 memorandum that the Bush administration
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey told skeptical senators today that it is "not an easy question' to determine whether waterboarding constitutes illegal torture under U.S. law, but he said there is no need to provide a clear answer because the tactic is no longer employed by the CIA.
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Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques -- "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning. But the White House will not go that far, saying it would be wrong to tell terrorists which practices they might face.