"Golden Shield" Doesn't Cover Condi's Torture Role
It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.
It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.
Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
Sen. Ron Wyden | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Striking a balance between protecting Americans' security and protecting American rights and freedoms is not always easy, but members of Congress have an obligation to try -- as well as a new opportunity.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.
Ariel Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Amnesty USA asked me to write a letter to Obama asking him to prosecute all those responsible for torturing in the name of the USA during the previous administration. This is the letter I sent to him
Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.
Michael Wolff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
So what is our policy on torture? What's allowed?
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
I entered my cab and began a conversation with my driver, a middle aged man of my vintage who informed me he was of Pakistani descent.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to launch a limited investigation of Bush-era interrogations of terror suspects has sparked intense criticism ...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.
Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
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Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
What Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it hardly stems the flood of foreclosures, and whether she knew and failed to complain doesn't quite equate with directly ordering torture.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.
Jon Soltz | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
I was stunned when Gen. Petraeus admitted today that the United States has violated the Geneva Conventions.
Martin Lewis | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy
I've just got back from visiting George W. Bush. We had a very nice chat for the most part. But he felt it was important to clear the air on the topic of waterboarding.
Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Obama should pardon not only Mr. Cheney, but everyone else in the prior administration who approved or knew about the illegal water-boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.
Jim Selman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
When people become polarized, there is no common ground from which to build a common future.
Andrew Kreig | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
One of the most experienced federal judges in recent Alabama history is denouncing the U.S. Justice Department prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Did Cheney show a lack of commitment to national security by limiting the interrogation techniques to waterboarding?
Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Keillor called for a fair and thorough congressional investigation that would "lay the whole wretched business out on the public record".
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy
As you will see, during Cheney's speech, a malfunction of some sort caused a small explosion which caused the Cheney-Borg's flesh-like covering to melt, thus revealing the endoskeleton hidden beneath.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics