Security Nominee Gave Advice to the C.I.A. on Torture Laws
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President Bush's nominee for homeland security secretary advised the C.I.A. on the legality of coercive interrogation methods.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of CIA detainees, on Friday ordered that agency interrogators comply with the Geneva Conventions against torture.
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. national intelligence director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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The attorney general said Tuesday that the harsh C.I.A. interrogation technique known as waterboarding was not clearly illegal, and suggested that it could be used against terrorism suspects again.
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Lawyers representing nine former  Iraqi prisoners on Tuesday asked a federal judge in San Diego  to ensure that U.S. defense contractor CACI International  trains the interrogators it sends to Iraq in international laws  against torture.
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President Bush's nominee for CIA  director on Monday told senators who questioned whether he  would stand up to the White House that he would make sure the  credibility of the spy agency was not damaged by outside  political battles.
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National Intelligence Director John D. Negroponte suggested that interrogations of suspected terrorists have been curtailed because of legal concerns raised by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the treatment of enemy combatants.
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The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress on Tuesday.
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The Met's former top anti-terror officer will be given "advice" over the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting.
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President Bush should expect tougher oversight of the war on terrorism and a closer look at his administration's policies on torture and other human rights issues, the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday.
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President George W. Bush's pick for top CIA legal officer came under fire from Senate Democrats on Tuesday for his role in an interrogation and detention program that brought accusations of torture against the United States.
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Federal judge Michael Chertoff, who  testified against torture and preached the need to protect  civil liberties, won unanimous Senate confirmation and was  sworn in on Tuesday to head the U.S. Homeland Security  Department.
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U.S. attorney general nominee  Alberto Gonzales faced blistering criticism on Thursday for his  role in shaping administration policies blamed for contributing  to the torture of terror suspects, which Democrats said had put  Americans at greater risk.
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The commissionâs chairmen said they believed the C.I.A. had made a conscious decision to impede repeated and detailed inquiries about interrogations.
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Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters last summer Â and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a   bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of   foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W.   Bush to sign into law.
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Quotes from Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday on the nomination of Robert Gates, former CIA director, to be secretary of Defense.