Washington failed to reject torture in &#39;war on terror&#39;
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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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Dismissing charges that tactics used at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to torture, Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the military&#39;s coercion policies today in Indianapolis.
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The US Senate passed controversial new rules on interrogating and prosecuting &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects, despite opponents who said the measure seriously curtails detainees' rights.
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The White House said on Friday it   was not U.S. policy to threaten Pakistan after the September 11   attacks despite Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's   complaint that Washington warned it would bomb his country.
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Vice President Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition to President Bush's Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of the al-Qaida terrorist network.
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Vice President Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition to President Bush's Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of al-Qaida
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of terrorism suspects, has issued new rules to ensure that detention and interrogation by the CIA comply with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture.
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Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguing on Capitol Hill on the legal rights of detainees.
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WASHINGTON - The GOP-controlled House on Thursday refused to endorse a Senate proposal addressing the Sept. 11 commissionâs terror-fighting recommendations, pushing ahead with a bill that would increase
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The CIA interrogation program should now be back in business and terrorist trials can begin right away, according to proponents of new legislation passed by Congress. The legislation is a victory for President Bush, whose detention and interrogation program was deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in June. Bush turned to Congress and was able to push through legislation that would revive his anti-terror efforts.
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WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush said the US has made &quot;great progress&quot; in the war on terror, but there&#39;s much still to do.
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The House of Representatives on   Wednesday passed a bill backed by President George W. Bush   setting rules for interrogating and trying foreign terrorism   suspects, dismissing warnings from Democrats that courts will   reject the plan.
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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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Amnesty&#39;s report -- &quot;Human dignity denied: Torture and accountability in the &#39;war on terror&quot;&#39; -- accused Washington of stepping onto a &quot;well-trodden path of violating basic rights in the name of national security or &#39;military necessity&#39;.
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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.
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The attorney general nominee declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture.