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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A coalition of more than 200 religious groups urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to sign an order, once he takes...
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The House approved lawsuits Tuesday to allow former POWs and civilians tortured or held hostage in the 1991 Gulf War to sue Iraq.
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ST LOUIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, on Sunday issued some of his harshest critici...
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The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they &qu...
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The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a "valuable" purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney ...
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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday "it was not a hard decision" to withdraw Justice Department legal opinions that approved...
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A former top Pentagon official defended the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, saying its policies prohibited torture during interroga...
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Medical examinations of former terror suspects held at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay found evidence of torture and other abuse, according to a human r...
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The U.S. is reopening an investigation of the government's handling of a Canadian engineer seized by U.S. officials and sent to Syria.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey says lawyers who drew up the legal basis for the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation tactics should...