President George W. Bush insisted Friday that the US does not torture prisoners when asked whether he agreed with a comment by Vice President Dick Cheney that a "dunk in the water" is a "no-brainer"...
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Elisa Massimino : "Last week, Congress adopted legislation governing the trial and treatment of detainees that is inconsistent both with the laws of war and the U.S. Constitution.On the one hand, Congress rejected an administration proposal...
Specter questions constitutionality of habeas restriction in detainee bill
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) told CNN's Late Edition program Sunday that he believes the habeas corpus provision of the latest draft of the military commissions bill [JURIST news...
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that five years after 9/11 - five years that have witnessed Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Abu Ghraib and CIA "black sites" - there are hopeful signs that America is...
CIA report questioned legality of interrogation methods, sources say
A classified Central Intelligence Agency report issued in 2004 questioned whether certain interrogation tactics approved by the agency for use against terrorism suspects would violate the UN Convention Against Torture , current and former intelligence officials have...
