Five years ago, as troubling reports emerged about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a career lawyer at the Justice Department began...
ABC News | JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be...
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. ...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory...
AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...
Washington Post | Josh White, Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11,...
Reuters | Randall Mikkelsen | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most ex...
William Fisher | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
In the first-ever report of its kind, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU released a first-hand account of a survivor of enforced disappearance and torture at several CIA 'black sites'.
Joe Biden | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
I do not make the call for a special counsel lightly. Seldom have the facts and circumstances surrounding an investigation made a more compelling case for appointment of a special counsel.
New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy vid...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
When news broke that the CIA had kept videotapes showing torture of detainees secret and then secretly destroyed them, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) was fast ...
TPMmuckraker | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
"It smells like the coverup of the coverup." That's Rep. Jane Harman's (D-CA) take. And Rep. Pete Hoekstra's (R-MI) wasn't any different. In case yo...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
he Bush administration has told a federal judge it was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists and urged th...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against terrorism suspects. The legislation, p...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
The House on Thursday approved an intelligence bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods....
Gov. Bill Richardson | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
In the thirteen months since winning back Congress, Democrats have done too little to force this administration to stop torturing.
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...
Bob Cesca | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
At what point does the gothic horror of the American torture chambers outweigh that which they aim to prevent? How far, when operating within a bubble devoid of accountability, will they go?
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
Someone call Patrick Fitzgerald. Today Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey requesting the immediate appointment of a speci...
ABC News | Martha Raddatz | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: In an exclusive interview with ABC News President Bush said Tuesday he did not know about the destruction of CIA vid...
Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden faces two days of testimony behind closed doors at the Senate and House intelligence committees to answer questions a...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
It's shocking that any American lawmaker -- of either party -- would go along with state-sanctioned torture. But it's not shocking when you realize it's just part of a long line of Democratic "acquiescence."
The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...
Paul Szep | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
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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 | Carrie Johnson and Josh White | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics