US Replaces Memo on Torture with New Guidelines
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The US Justice Department released a new memo on Friday to replace a controversial document outlining how to avoid violating US and international terror statutes while interrogating prisoners.
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WASHINGTON : The CIA has secretly transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation after asking the US Justice Department to write a memo justifying the practice, which violates the Geneva Conventions, The Washington Post reported.
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The Justice Department has broadened its definition of torture, retreating from a memo that defined torture extremely narrowly.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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What are the details of the new intelligence reform effort?
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Defining limits on 'alternative' interrogation methods is major concern of key US lawmakers.
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President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.
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INTERROGATION ORDERS: President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment in question terror suspects.
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A memo issued last summer by a U.S. Army military intelligence officer appealed for suggestions on how to extract information from prisoners in Iraq and called for tougher means of getting intelligence.
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Many harsh interrogation techniques would be made lawful by legislation put forward by the Bush administration.
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The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's clearest confirmation of the technique's use.
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President Bush today signed an executive order governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects by the CIA and barring torture, degrading treatment and serious acts of violence, the White House announced.
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At the urging of the White House,  congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month  that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme  interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, The  New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from detainees captured in ongoing wars.
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LONDON, Aug 13 (IPS) - After years of condemning torture in other   countries, Britian could now be approving it as official policy.
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President Bush signs an executive order banning cruel treatment of terrorism suspects during interrogation.
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WASHINGTON: The International Committee of the Red Cross has found prisoner abuse that amounted to &quot;a form of torture&quot; at a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The New York Times newspaper said yesterday.