UN rights chief urges US to hold Bush-era officials accountable for 'torture'
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US Wednesday to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration. Pillay welcomed the US as a new member of the UN...
House speaker claims CIA misled Congress on use of harsh interrogation techniques
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) misled Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush...
Bush-era interrogation techniques discussed at Senate panel hearing
In the first hearing on whether Bush administration interrogation techniques constituted torture, one witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts on Wednesday called memos on enhanced interrogation methods "an ethical train wreck"...
Lawyers who authorized torture 'disgraced profession': JFK counsel Sorensen
Ted Sorensen, former special counsel to US President John F. Kennedy, said in a commencement address at the University of Nebraska College of Law Saturday that lawyers from the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
DOJ not recommending prosecution of CIA interrogation memo authors: report
US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigators have concluded that three former Bush administration lawyers responsible for authoring controversial CIA interrogation memos should not face criminal prosecutions, according to Wednesday media reports. A draft report...
US must prosecute CIA interrogation memo authors: UN torture investigator
UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak said Friday that the US must prosecute Justice Department (DOJ) lawyers who drafted four recently released top secret memos , which outlined controversial CIA interrogation techniques...
US President Barack Obama on Monday defended his recent decision to release memos describing interrogation methods employed by CIA officials in questioning Guantanamo Bay detainees. He made the remarks to CIA officials who had expressed...
US must investigate Bush-era CIA interrogators: UN torture expert
US President Barack Obama is in violation of international law for declining to prosecute Bush-era CIA agents who allegedly used torture , UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak said in an...
UK police to investigate MI5 agent role in US detainee alleged abuse
UK Attorney General Janet Scotland said Thursday that police would conduct an investigation into claims that an agent of the country's MI5 intelligence service took part in the allegedly abusive interrogation of former...
The UK will publish the guidance it gives to intelligence officers for questioning suspects overseas, Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament in a written statement Wednesday. Restating the UK's unequivocal condemnation of torture, Brown said that...
