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US Army to issue new interrogation manual

April 28, 2005 10:18:00 AM

The US Army is planning to issue a revised interrogations manual that will expressly limit techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison that drew outrage when publicly revealed. Army officials on Wednesday said that the...

February 17, 2005 09:01:00 PM

The Iraqi prisoner who died while in US custody at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and whose corpse was shown in photographs that emerged from the abuse scandal died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging"...

February 8, 2005 10:52:00 AM

Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Judge Michael Chertoff has been confirmed by the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , with a vote by the full Senate expected before the end of the week. Chertoff was confirmed...

February 1, 2005 11:41:00 AM

White House spokesman Scott McClellan Tuesday denied reports that Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Michael Chertoff , a former Justice Department official, advised the CIA on the use of certain torture techniques on terror suspects. McClellan said Chertoff...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.