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.

When I began investigating Condoleezza Rice four years ago, I had no idea she was complicit in torture.

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

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.

It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.

Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.

So what is our policy on torture? What's allowed?

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to launch a limited investigation of Bush-era interrogations of terror suspects has sparked intense criticism ...

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.

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.

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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.

Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.

I was stunned when Gen. Petraeus admitted today that the United States has violated the Geneva Conventions.

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.

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.

When people become polarized, there is no common ground from which to build a common future.

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.

Keillor called for a fair and thorough congressional investigation that would "lay the whole wretched business out on the public record".

Did Cheney show a lack of commitment to national security by limiting the interrogation techniques to waterboarding?