Mukasey urged to answer torture question
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A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he might consider opposing Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general if the former judge says waterboarding is not torture.
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Two Democratic senators have vowed to use the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general to extract information from a reluctant White House.
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Americans are torn by debate these   days in Washington over how to treat terrorism suspects. They   feel the United States should set a good example and not   torture. But what if it will save lives?
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The administration must answer questions about the destruction of CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaeda suspects
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President Bush's choice for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, embraced some of the administration's most controversial legal positions yesterday, suggesting that Bush can ignore surveillance statutes in wartime and avoiding a declaration that simulated drowning constitutes torture under U.S....
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An attorney for families of Sept. 11 victims asked a court Friday to seek testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in Syria, saying it could lead to a stiffer sentence for a man convicted in Germany of aiding the suicide hijackers.
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A US federal judge considers a call to probe the CIA's deletion of interrogation tapes of two al-Qaeda suspects.
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The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance from Democrats today.
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A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
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Alberto Gonzales, nominee for attorney general, may face vigorous interrogation during confirmation hearings about his role in the treatment of detainees.
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The nomination of Michael Mukasey for attorney general was greeted by congressional Democrats as a goodwill gesture with the potential to thaw some standoffs with the White House over executive privilege, several lawmakers and their aides said Monday.
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogating terrorism suspects are legal and do not include a widely condemned method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Bush administration to tell him whether two CIA interrogation videos destroyed in 2005 were relevant to his case.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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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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Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey refused to say Thursday whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, frustrating Democrats and potentially slowing his confirmation to head the Justice Department.
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Senate Democrats seeking the presidency said Tuesday they will vote against Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey unless he says unequivocally that waterboarding amounts to torture.