Lawmakers Troubled by 'Ghost Detainees'
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WASHINGTON - Congress may keep up the focus on the prison abuse scandal following the disclosure that the military has concealed as many as 100 "ghost detainees" from the Red Cross.    The presence of prisoners held by the CIA outside of the military's usual system of registration and care was an important finding of an Army investigation completed last month...
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The Judiciary Committee sought to slow down the effort to pass legislation on the treatment of terror suspects.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is facing a wave of new allegations that the abuse of foreign detainees in US military custody was more widespread, varied, and grave in the past three years than the Defense Department has long maintained.
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Lawmakers are unconvinced by Administration claims that the glass is half full in America's 'forgotten war'
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The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers &amp;#151; places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated.
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The United States may have kept up to 100 &quot;ghost detainees&quot; in Iraq off the books and concealed from Red Cross observers, a far higher number than previously reported, an Army general told Congress on Thursday.
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Each day, detainees in GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, argue before anonymous military officers that they should not be there. The hearings have come under heavy criticism.
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It has not been a pretty sight on Capitol Hill in the waning hours of Republican control. Once-powerful lawmakers have been shown the door at their own offices, forced to crowd in a basement or other nooks to finish their work, if not their careers. The usual backslapping has given way to back pats as colleagues try to comfort losers who will soon be going home.
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WASHINGTON - Senators examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal criticized the CIA on Thursday for failing to provide Army investigators with documents on unregistered &#39;&#39;ghost detainees.
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House Republican leaders yesterday backed off a controversial proposal to allow deportation of foreign terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture, as lawmakers struggled to complete
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Two senators said on Sunday they  were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials  secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq  in the last six months, possibly violating international  treaties.
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Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.
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Former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party were skeptical Sunday of a new law enabling them to reclaim government jobs, saying they feared it might be a plot to hunt them down.
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A half dozen federal investigations into the activities of Republican lawmakers are raising new worries for GOP leaders who hope to regain the House majority they lost last fall.
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A report that the CIA secretly transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation without notifying the Red Cross drew criticism Sunday from key members of Congress.
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The Supreme Court&#039;s rebuff of the Bush administration&#039;s Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees.
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An MP allegedly bugged by police while meeting a constituent in prison says he wants to know the truth.