Former President Bill Clinton said in a Financial Times interview published Monday that the US government should "close down or clean up" Guantanamo Bay prison . On the weekend leading GOP Senator John McCain also pressed for...
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Military, DOJ officials defend Gitmo practices at Senate hearing on detainees
Senior US military and Justice Department officials defended Guantanamo prison and US policy towards terror detainees Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Citing continued uncertainty about their status, Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) urged Congress to...
When asked about the fate of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay during a Fox News interview Wednesday, President Bush insisted that all prisoners there are being treated in accordance with international standards, but did say that...
Former US President Jimmy Carter closed a two-day human rights conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday by saying that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp and two...
US Senator Joseph Biden said Sunday on ABC-TV's This Week that the US should begin efforts to close down the military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Biden, head Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ,...
The US Department of State said Monday that it will not release internal documents requested by Senate Democrats serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , set to vote Thursday on the nomination of John Bolton...
Senate committee chair predicts approval of Bolton nomination
Senator Richard Lugar , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , said Sunday that he expects a party-line vote this week to approve the controversial nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the...
Initial reactions by Senators on both sides of the aisle prompted speculation Tuesday that Monday's nomination of Under-Secretary of State John Bolton to be the new US ambassador to the UN could be problematic, or at least...
AG nominee Alberto Gonzales' answers to written questions [White House]
Written answers to questions posed by Senate Judiciary Committee members in connection with the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, January 19, 2005 . Review answers to questions by Senators Biden, Coburn, Durbin (Part I;II),...
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have forced a one-week postponement pf the vote on Alberto Gonzales' nomination as attorney general because Gonzales hasn't answered all of the committee's questions. Gonzales submitted written...
