Memo Fueled Deep Rift in Administration on Detainees
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After a broad overhaul was urged, officials often led by Vice President Cheney were pitted against officials in the State and Defense departments.
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U.S. government memos released today said that two military intelligence personnel who saw mistreatment at a Baghdad prison were threatened by U.S. special forces.
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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As the Bush administration accelerates discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a growing chorus of Democrats on Capitol Hill is imploring the State Department not to transfer detainees to countries that may torture them.
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The Bush administration's top intelligence officials have all filed declarations to a federal appeals court -- including two classified top-secret -- warning that its recent ruling ordering the release of information about detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will cause grave harm to national...
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An American detaineeâs story illuminates the haphazard system of detention and prosecution that has evolved in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON : The CIA has secretly transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation after asking the US Justice Department to write a memo justifying the practice, which violates the Geneva Conventions, The Washington Post reported.
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The swirling controversy over President Bush&#39;s National Guard service took a bitter partisan turn yesterday as a top GOP lawmaker demanded a congressional probe into disputed memos
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At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted, in March 2004, a confidential memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation -- a practice
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Description: Documents newly released by the government reveal more charges of detainee abuse in Iraq. The files, obtained through a year-old request under the Freedom of Information Act, document court-martials
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United States intelligence officers have taken detainees out of Iraq for interrogation, according to The Washington Post. At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department allegedly compiled a secret memo
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President Bush's disclosure of previously secret CIA prisons overseas and his unapologetic defense of hardball tactics in the war on terrorism may rub salt in a diplomatic wound his administration had hoped to heal.
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Release of two in-depth investigative reports this week on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal appears to have put to rest suspicions that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered or encouraged the use of abusive tactics against Iraqi detainees.
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Eight months after President Bush signed a bill authorizing the CIA to resume using "enhanced interrogation techniques" on terrorism suspects, the administration has been unable to agree on what constitutes "humiliating and degrading treatment" of detainees.
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The Bush administration is facing growing criticism from both inside and outside its ranks that it has failed to move aggressively enough in the war of ideas against Osama bin Laden&#39;s al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups over the ...
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is facing a wave of new allegations that the abuse of foreign detainees in US military custody was more widespread, varied, and grave in the past three years than the Defense Department has long maintained.
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The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a Bush administration plan to allow tough CIA interrogations, underscoring election-season divisions among Republicans on the high profile issue of security.