Former Bush Official Wins Protection From Torture Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a convicted terrorist's lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who ...
SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a convicted terrorist's lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who ...
Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 02.05.2012
This increase in debate viewership is a very good thing. Or at least it could be if questions would go deeper -- beneath the surface of mere talking point positions -- to the moral or philosophical reasoning process candidates use to arrive at their views.
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 01.29.2012
WASHINGTON — The face of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's policy for handling suspected terrorists is a 43-year-old former pros...
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 12.03.2011
When lockdowns, detention, and "enhanced coercive interrogation techniques" become everyday words, we are preparing children to accept as normal a world in which shackling pregnant women is ok.
Norm Stamper | Posted 07.14.2011
The capture of bin Laden argues elegantly against high-priced, nation-building, mission-creeping war, and its inevitable collateral damage, in order to go after individuals who are, at bottom, criminals.
Robert Creamer | Posted 07.10.2011
There is only one thing that we know about torture that works for certain: torture debases us. It doesn't just debase its victims or those who perpetrate it. It debases all of us in whose name it is conducted.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 07.05.2011
With torture we get the worst of both worlds: we gather no useful intelligence and we undermine our reputation as a democratic government of principles.
Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011
Some of war's most disturbing moments don't happen on the battlefield. Such was the case when Sergeant Chuck Luther sat before a Congressional committee and described how he was tortured by U.S. Army officials.
Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011
Since 2001, over 22,600 soldiers have been pressed into signing such documents, affirming a pre-existing condition, making them ineligible for disability benefits, saving the military billions of dollars.
Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011
Personality disorder (PD) has been cited as the cause for everything from deafness following a rocket blast to shrapnel wounds, as a means for denying benefits to soldiers who have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jack Healey | Posted 05.25.2011
The world's greatest democracy should not be in the business of spiriting people out of sight and outside of a legal system with built-in safeguards.
Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011
I had been covering veterans' issues for several years and thought I'd developed a thick skin. But the pain on the other end of the telephone line as Sergeant Chuck Luther told me his story was difficult to stomach.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
GENEVA — Former Guantanamo Bay detainees have launched an organization to help released inmates return to normal life and to lobby for the relea...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Roeder is claiming the now-infamous "ticking time bomb" scenario of what can only be termed domestic terrorism. Doesn't this mean that he should immediately be waterboarded?
Washington Times | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's choice to run the Justice Department has assured senior Republican senators that he won't prosecute CIA officers or political appoin...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.
Jonathan Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011
It's one thing for the chicken hawks in the administration to argue for "enhanced interrogation" techniques, but it's quite another to make that case when you to face the prospect after capture.
ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011
Karl Rove's recent opinion piece on John McCain contradicts the definition of torture to which his former employer adheres. Despite repeated claims t...
AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.03.2012