Mukasey rapped over shield bill

24 Jul 2008 09:16 GMT

... hours, facing questions on everything from terror detainees and executive authority to

US stocks climb on strong technology, health earnings

24 Jul 2008 07:53 GMT

... intense interrogations while in US custody, and has been among the most active Guantanamo detainees challenging the legal process in federal court. Hamdan's trial is seen as the first ...

Mukasey in hot seat over legislation

24 Jul 2008 06:31 GMT

... hours, facing questions on everything from terror detainees and executive authority to immigration laws and ... issue, he denied that they would. Several Democrats on the panel raised concerns about the ...

The Buzz: They even had an Obama pinata

24 Jul 2008 06:31 GMT

... President Bush is so enthusiastic about a free-trade pact ... prosecutors are convinced Salim Hamdan, the first detainee to face a war crimes trial there, ... resolute stance. Once contentedly against offshore drilling, Democrats weren't ready for a public opinion swing, ...

Ex-Backers Dismayed by Mukasey's Wary Start

24 Jul 2008 05:21 GMT

... from Mr. Gonzales, including the treatment of detainees, the broad surveillance powers claimed by Mr. ... demands from Congress for information. Last week, Democrats charged that Mr. Mukasey was using the ... like limiting the political contacts between the White House and the Justice Department, that they say ...

Detainees' rights debated as Guantanamo trial begins

24 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT

... after Hamdan. Mohammed is one of three detainees the government has said was subjected to ... and there is no danger that any detainee will be released in the meantime." ...

U.S. lawmakers chide attorney general on press freedom

24 Jul 2008 03:16 GMT

Lawmakers chide Mukasey on press freedom

24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT

Bin Laden's driver was aware of terrorist attacks--witness

24 Jul 2008 01:55 GMT

... Guantanamo without giving them the right to defend themselves in court. Of the 260 detainees currently in Guantanamo, only around 20 have been charged with a crime and the ...

White House sex crimes must be exposed

24 Jul 2008 01:37 GMT

... White House sex crimes must be exposed Sex crime ... that it had authorized sexualized abuse of detainees as part of interrogation practices to be ... female interrogator rubbing lotion on a shackled detainee and whispering in his ear - during ...

Hamdan case: Let court do its job

24 Jul 2008 01:17 GMT

... against the Bush administration policy of denying detainees habeas corpus rights, Hamdan must go through ... the rule of law and not the White House's byzantine schemes to destroy it -- it ...

Walid Moallem, fear, and the prisoners

24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT

... appoint an independent investigator to prepare as accurate a list as possible of the detainees. That list should then be placed on the table whenever Lebanon and Syria discuss ...

Hamdan was in Osama bin Laden's inner ring, FBI witness says

23 Jul 2008 23:38 GMT

... intense interrogations while in US custody, and has been among the most active Guantanamo detainees challenging the legal process in federal court. Hamdan's trial is seen as the first ...

Jane Mayer: 'The Dark Side'

23 Jul 2008 23:35 GMT

... case histories for several prisoners, beginning with "detainee 001," the so-called American Taliban, John Walker ... Abu Ghraib became a bizarre world where detainees were kept on dog leashes and bombarded ...

Four US soldiers charged with conspiracy to murder Iraqis

23 Jul 2008 22:32 GMT

... been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the deaths of several detainees in Iraq in early 2007, the US Army said Wednesday. (AFP Jewel Samad) WASHINGTON ...

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