US senator presses Pentagon over suppression of evidence in prisoner abuse cases
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A US senator has urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to promptly open a probe into allegations that evidence of prisoner abuse by the US military has been suppressed, a US civil liberties group said.
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The Pentagon denied on Tuesday that it had sanctioned the activities of three Americans on trial in Afghanistan on charges of imprisoning and torturing Afghans.
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The Pentagon is investigating new allegations by a civil liberties group that military interrogators at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay posed as FBI (website) agents while using abusive techniques to question detainees.
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A Senate committee will hear allegations that a young U.S. resident was tortured and videotaped -- after the CIA says such videotaping had stopped
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Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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CAPITOL HILL A Democratic senator isn&#39;t satisfied with the answer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave to a US soldier in Kuwait today.
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Democratic senators will try to present a no-confidence measure on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the full Senate on Wednesday in an effort to persuade President Bush to sack the outspoken Pentagon chief, Democratic aides said.
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A key Democratic senator asked the Justice Department on Monday for an update on its progress prosecuting government employees who were accused in at least 17 cases of abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Amnesty International demanded the US on Wednesday to set up an independent probe of prisonersâ abuses in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department asked a judge Tuesday to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism.    In a late-night filing, the department told U.S...
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A military judge hearing evidence about the alleged abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison pressed the U.S. government Monday to speed up its investigation, warning that delays could derail the case against at least one of the accused soldiers...
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Lawyers for suspected enemy fighters imprisoned at a U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay urged a federal judge this morning to investigate whether the Bush administration has destroyed evidence about their clients citing the CIA's recent acknowledgement that it destroyed videotapes of interrog...
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Democrats are renewing calls for the declassification of a CIA report documenting the agencyâs mistakes in preventing the 2001 attacks.
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WASHINGTON - Senators examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal criticized the CIA on Thursday for failing to provide Army investigators with documents on unregistered "ghost detainees."   At a hearing, lawmakers indicated their frustration that Army generals who investigated the prison abuses couldn't put a specific figure on the number of ghost detainees and could only give a range of up to 100 detainees, though they said it was more likely closer to two dozen.   "It's a very difficult question for us to answer, Mr...
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MANNHEIM, Germany -- The US military judge hearing charges of prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison rejected a request yesterday for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to submit to an interview, but said he would reconsider if the defense could show a Rumsfeld link to the case.
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Defense attorneys for a military police soldier charged with detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued in court that their client was a pawn in a widespread policy of abusive military intelligence procedures, citing two extensive Pentagon  investigative reports released last week as evidence that the soldier was following orders.
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The top U.S. law enforcement official faces a clash on Wednesday with Senate Democrats after he rejected demands to rule on the legality of an interrogation technique known as waterboarding