Word: ghraib
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...report, which examines the fine line between national security and protecting civil liberties, singles out coercive interrogation such as that allegedly employed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as the most pressing of ten major legal issues facing Congress...
...September the challenger should have been far ahead. For months the war news had been devastating for the President: the mounting casualties, the absence of WMD, Abu Ghraib, the kidnappings and beheadings. The President's popularity, once 90%, began to dip below the fatal 50% mark. Yet Kerry could do nothing. If the election had been held Sept. 29, it would have been a Bush landslide...
...Annan, a more ameliorative approach now that he has been re-elected. A key may be the fate of Donald Rumsfeld. He wants to stay on at the Pentagon, but the President may decide that a fresh start requires the sacking of the man who presided over the Abu Ghraib abuses, the no-bid Halliburton contracts and the post-Saddam planning disaster. The "legacy" Republicans believe it is an absolute necessity for Bush to replace his current foreign-policy team, swapping the neoconservative idealists who provided the rationale for invading Iraq for more pragmatic, traditional conservatives...
...score. Throughout the summer, every time his aides rustled up a notion about how to regain control of the race, their idea would be overtaken by events. May, June and July had been filled with spikes of violence in Iraq and new disclosures about abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. "We'd try [to change the subject], but even if the President said Iraq once, that's all people would talk about," recalled Rove. Though Kerry had seen no real bump in the polls, voters were viewing him as a more plausible Commander in Chief than they had before, and they...
...another time, Bush and Bartlett might have challenged the authenticity of the documents. But stiff-arming the press had failed during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and after the tempest over WMD claims in the State of the Union address, so the last thing Bush wanted was a credibility fight. "We couldn't challenge their veracity because then people would challenge ours," says Bartlett. A softer defense was hatched: Bartlett would hint that the alleged new evidence was being pushed by the President's political enemies but would stick to the talking points: Bush had been honorably discharged...