European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 292007 stars and stripes Page in the states judge Rumsfeld cant be tried for Detainee abuse by Matt Apuzzo the associated press Washington former de sense Secretary Donald rums Feld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons a Federal judge said tues Day us District judge Thomas f Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghani Stan he said Rumsfeld cannot be held personally responsible for actions taken in connection with his government Job the lawsuit contends the prisoners were beaten suspended up Side Down from the ceiling by chains urinated on shocked sexually humiliated burned locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions lawyers for the american civil liberties Union and human rights first had argued that Rumsfeld and top military officials disregarded warnings about the abuse and authorized the use of illegal interrogation tactics that violated the constitutional and human rights of prisoners despite the horrifying torture allegations Hogan wrote he could find no Case Law supporting the lawsuit which he previously had described As unprecedented government officials Are nor Mally immune from such Law suits and foreigners held Over seas Are not normally afforded us constitutional rights allowing the Case to go for Ward Hogan said in december might subject government officials to All sorts of political Law suits Bush spokesman cancer has returned Washington the Colon cancer that Tony Snow successfully battled two years ago has re turned and spread to the presiden tial spokesman liver the White House said tuesday president Bush making a Brief statement to reporters in the Rose Garden struck an optimistic tone the president spoke with Snow Early tuesday and said he looks Forward to the Day that his spokesman comes Back to the White House and briefs the press corps on the decisions that in making his attitude is one that he is not going to let this whip him and Hes upbeat Bush said from the associated press Fri chief defends Bureau spying authority to panel by Michael j Sniffen the associated press Washington Fri director Robert Mueller Laboured tues Day to persuade sceptical us senators that the Fri can properly use its Patriot act authority to gather Telephone email and financial records of americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists he appeared before the Senate judiciary committee after the Justice department inspector general revealed abuses in the Federal Bureau of investigations use of documents called National Security letters to gather such data without approval from a judge were going to be reexamining the Broad authorities we granted the Fri in the Patriot act committee chairman sen Patrick Leahy a Democrat told Mueller Mueller urged the panel not to revise the Law the statute did not cause the errors Mueller said the Bis implementation did the statute did not cause the errors the Bis implementation did 99 Robert Mueller Fri director he said he instituted proce dures to police the use of these let ters what i did not do and should have done is put in a compliance program to be sure those procedures were followed the Fri chief added he said he has now begun to do that and has ordered an audit to determine the full extent of the problem and to determine if any agents should be disciplined we Are committed to Demon Strating to committee the con Gress and the american people mat we will Correct the deficiencies Mueller said i still have very serious qualms Leahy replied citing the inspector general re port on National Security letters and his previous reports criticizing Fri reporting of terrorist cases of weapons and Laptop losses sen Arlen Specter the top re publican on the committee said every time we turn around there is another enormous failure by the Bureau the question arises As to whether any director can handle this Job and whether the Bureau it self can handle the Job Specter said proposing that the panel give serious consideration to establish ing a separate Domestic Intelli gence Agency like Britain mi5 Mueller said he had reduced the problem since learning of it in 2005 but noted that the warrant applications Are very Long and contain thousands of facts Republican Sens Jeff sessions and Orrin Hatch made Clear they opposed altering the Law to curb Fri authority youve acknowledged the problems and pledged to fix them that what Congress and the american people need Hatch said the committee plans to hear april 17 from attorney general Alberto Gonzales achieve Success go from Green to Gold my Kun to denials  enrol in army a Sirhy