Bush Torture

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

Ever since Americans learned that American soldiers and intelligence agents were torturing prisoners, there has been a disturbing question: How high u...

With nine months remaining in President George W. Bush's term, virtually no legal analyst expects that anyone in his administration will face indictme...

We should demand that the press take a break from its how-will-it-play- narrative-meta drivel and actually cover the fact that top administration officials gave torture a green light.

Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. ...

Given America's singular military and cultural power in today's world, no less than the future of 250 years of human rights development rests on how this internal American battle over torture is resolved.

The stories of the Guantánamo detainees do nothing to bolster the administration's claims that those detained in the "War on Terror" were so dangerous that it was worth breaking domestic and international law and introducing torture as official US policy.

Water-Boarding?! How am I supposed to feel superior to the Germans and the Japanese?! After all, water-boarding is just a gateway drug. What's next?

Six years after the Bush administration embraced harsh physical tactics for interrogating terrorism suspects, and two years after it reportedly droppe...

Last time I checked, Mr. Mukasey, the job of the president as our chief executive is faithfully to EXECUTE the law -- not to override it.

Evidently, the government of the United Sates of America - your government and my government - has been torturing human beings for years.