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by James Oliphant ABC News is reporting that President Bush may decide in the coming days whether to close or revamp the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that holds about 270 alleged terrorists. Closing Gitmo has been advocated by Defense......

In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee, left, walks in a fenced-in exercise area as a guard patrols on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp 5, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in......

by Frank James Jim Slattery, a Kansas Democrat running against Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, wants to get your attention with a new ad called "Hosed." He certainly got mine. He has an ad in which a Gulliver-sized corporate executive......

by Frank James The Senate confirmation hearing for President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, has been postponed a week in the wake of revelations that he failed to initially pay Social Security and Medicare taxes...

Republicans continue to give Geithner a hard time at his Finance Committee confirmation hearing. Olympia Snowe asks about his failure to effectively regulate credit swap derivatives, and his role in allow Lehman Brothers to fail. Jim Bunning says he......

by Greg Miller Congressional leaders were briefed repeatedly on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods on Al Qaeda suspects, according to new information released by the Obama administration Thursday that appears to contradict the assertions of...

WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush administered a public tongue-lashing to Congress yesterday, saying disclosure by lawmakers of sensitive intelligence to the press could imperil American military personnel. "I want Congress to hear loud and clear,...

The United States lifted the cloak on a cloak-and-dagger world Wednesday, providing a rare glimpse of the array of intelligence resources it aims at its adversaries. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's presentation to the U.N. Security Council...

As they began yesterday to interrogate Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks who was captured in Pakistan over the weekend, U.S. officials expressed confidence that he could lead them to other al-Qaida operatives...

WASHINGTON - In an attempt to quell the uproar in the Muslim world over American mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, President Bush assured an Arabic language television network yesterday that "people will be held to account" for the "horrible" and...

WASHINGTON - President Bush insisted yesterday that Iraq had a weapons program, and the White House asked for patience during a search for evidence to prove it. As lawmakers considered an investigation into the handling of intelligence that led to war,...

WASHINGTON - As Congress begins top-secret hearings this week into whether U.S. officials exaggerated their intelligence findings on Iraq before the war, a key Senate Democrat raised questions yesterday about the credibility of the nation's top...