Senators Question U.S. Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners
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Two U.S. senators said on Sunday  they were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials  secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq  in the last six months, possibly violating international  treaties.
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Members of Congress, including many who have traveled to Iraq to see the war for themselves, are wary about this weekend's election there and pondering such questions as whether Iraqi soldiers can be trained quickly enough to bring U.S. troops home soon.
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Senators from both parties accused the Bush administration Wednesday of incompetence in its efforts to rebuild Iraq and said the United States could lose the war
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Non-Iraqi prisoners captured by US forces on the Iraq battlefield are not entitled to the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions, according to a recent legal opinion from the Justice Department.
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A high-level panel investigating  U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top  Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed  to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib  prison in Iraq, a defense official said on Tuesday.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid caused a stir Thursday when he said Gen. Peter Pace failed in his job of providing Congress a candid assessment on the Iraq war and that he was concerned Gen. David Petraeus might be guilty of the same.
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A US senate committee has been told that up to 100 &quot;ghost detainees&quot; could have been held at the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq because the CIA did not register all prisoners, it was reported today.
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Inattention to prisoner issues by senior U.S. military leaders in Iraq and at the Pentagon was a key factor in the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, but there is no evidence they ordered any mistreatment, an independent panel concluded. A second report looking at prisoner abuse was expected to be released Wednesday.
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The Senate returns Monday to its defense authorization bill, beginning with a politically charged debate about the treatment of detained terrorism suspects before lawmakers turn to the Iraq War.
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Details of the role civilian contractors played in the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq sparked fresh debate yesterday about the effectiveness of laws and rules meant to govern workers hired to support the military. -The Washington Post
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Senate Republicans sharply challenged President Bush's top military general and ambassador in Iraq on Tuesday in a sign that some within the GOP retain serious misgivings about the protracted war.
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An Army general acknowledged for the  first time on Wednesday that U.S. forces tortured Iraqis at the  Abu Ghraib jail and his report said a colonel who headed the  military intelligence unit at the prison could face criminal  charges.
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A spokesman for the Senate Armed Services chairman says draft legislation is headed to Capitol Hill with "new language," for a proposal that would allow the CIA to continue alternative interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Republican senators have voted against legislation on detainees held at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Senators from both major US political parties urged the Bush administration to face the reality of the situation in Iraq and change its occupation policies.
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The United States may cut off funding for Iraq's police because of its failure to punish people responsible for torture, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said in an interview published on Saturday.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - Four U.S. soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison face pretrial hearings before an American military judge in Germany...
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The Senate's top Democrat, facing a mini-storm of Republican attacks over his reported criticism of military leaders, said on Thursday he had high regard for the U.S. commander in Iraq but wished Gen. David Petraeus would be "more candid" about the difficulties there.