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Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...

Human Rights Watch issued a report Saturday calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet in connection with US mistreatment and torture of...

Sheik Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, a prominent Sunni cleric of the Association of Muslim Scholars , urged President Jalal Talabani on Friday to fulfill an earlier promise to pardon some 10,500 insurgents imprisoned by US forces. His...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday warned Iraqi interim leaders to avoid political purgings that could lead to corruption in the government in the wake of its recent formation. He also urged the government...

In an address to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club public affairs forum Friday, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski said that ample evidence exists to prove the use of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison was...

In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Thursday, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, slammed the Defense Department's proposed changes to the guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants for violating protections outlined...

Doe. v. Rumsfeld, US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmet Sullivan, April 6, 2005 . Read the full...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit hears arguments Thursday on the legality of military commission trials of terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base . Last November, US District Judge James Robertson ordered...

The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals for all Guantanamo Bay detainees have been completed. Navy Secretary Gordon England , who has overseen the CSRT process, announced that 38 of...

According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response to widespread criticism...