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Murtha Takes Aim at Abu Ghraib
Few chapters in the US involvement in Iraq have angered Representative John Murtha more than the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. It was a major reason the Pennsylvania Democrat helped Senator John... ...
Judge: Immigrant Detainees' Treatment Unconstitutional
In the first legal decision on a federal law that denies access to US courts to detainees in the war on terrorism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that foreign prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could... ...
The Army 'approved abuse of prisoners'
THE Army’s high command was accused last night of officially sanctioning the hooding and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention. http://www.informationcl earinghouse.info/article15 648.htm ...
Congressman Shays: Abu Ghraib Wasn't torture
http://www.informationclea ringhouse.info/article1529 6.htm Shays defends comments on Abu Ghraib "This is outrageous for a sitting congressman," said Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast regional director for... ...
Detainee Bill Shifts Power to President
Rather than reining in the formidable presidential powers Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have asserted since September 11, 2001, the detainee bill gives some of those powers a solid statutory... ...
Fighting for our honor
Boston Globe by H.D.S. Greenway 09/19/06 George W. Bush likes to think of himself as another Winston Churchill. A bust of the great man adorns the Oval Office. But what Churchill wrote of his own country,... ...
Sens. challenge White House terror bill
Aberdeen American News 09/13/06 The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a Bush administration plan to allow tough CIA interrogations, underscoring election-season... ...
U.S. Back on the Road to Abu Ghraib
In a major speech this week, George Bush once again declared "the United States does not torture." But of course Bush is lying - we've all seen the photos. Now Bush wants to "legalize" past torture by... ...
Bush seeks to weaken war crimes law
MSNBC 08/08/06 The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for... ...
Pentagon Resists Ban on "Degrading Treatment"
As new reports detail further abuse by the U.S. military of its prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a behind-the-scenes battle is being fought between the U.S. departments of state and defence about whether... ...