A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...
NY Times | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda priso...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
The price of oil has done for Russia what the cold war Kremlin was unable to achieve with all its missiles, tanks and mind numbing divisions of men and armor.
John McQuaid | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
The alarming backstory leading up to the captivity of the three hostages reveals a lot about the failings of government contracting, and government in general.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisti...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst flies in the face of the evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
The Senate Intelligence Committee's 200-page "Phase II" report on how the White House used -- and abused -- pre-war intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq is a stinging rebuke.
Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality?
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
I've watched a number of the debates now, both Democratic and Republican. As with so many things, the quality has gone down as the quantity has gone u...
Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...
Joe Lauria | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
The American people need to hear what Wright is saying about foreign policy. He may be wrong about some things, but he's spoken about some matters we can no longer ignore.
Andy Worthington | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
Abu Zubaydah, an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, has been held without charge or trial as a "high-value detainee" for over six years, first in secr...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Who do you believe? The Bush administration's statements on Syria's nuclear capabilities, or Syria's ambassador?
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Syria claims that Israel has made an offer to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal with Damascus. This is particularly intriguing.
Frederick P. Hitz | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
The CIA is a wounded culture searching for ways to again become relevant in the fight against terrorism.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and PAMELA HESS | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against su...
Vanity Fair | Phillippe Sands | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
The abuse, rising to the level of torture, of those captured and detained in the war on terror is a defining feature of the presidency of George W. Bu...
London Times | Jonathan Richards | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home
Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to...
BBC News | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics