There's some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy Administration this week....
John Cusack | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.
Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.
Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Former State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the first congressional panel convened to address allegations of torture that Bush administratio...
AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former FBI interrogator who questioned al-Qaida prisoners testified Wednesday that the Bush administration falsely boasted of suc...
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The enduring question is whether a small group of people in power have the right to redefine the nature of America's core values and ideals through policy decisions made under the cover of secrecy.
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
When president Obama decided to release the Bush-era Justice Department's interrogation memos last month, he tried to calm an anxious CIA by publicly ...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
Iraqi authorities widely use torture to interrogate prisoners and extract confessions without fear of consequence. Sadly, the US doesn't have the credibility to confront these crimes.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
The truth is long overdue. We as a nation need to recognize that the tactic of coercing information does not work.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
The martyrdom of Noor Inayat Khan demonstrates that torture is only effective when all understanding of the concept of liberty is lost to a nation.
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
The military agency that helped to devise harsh interrogation techniques for use against terrorism suspects referred to the application of extreme dur...
CBS | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who ran Iraq prisons in 2003, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was insistent that all orders on interrogat...
Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.
Propublica | Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden was fond of saying [1] that when it came to handling high-value terror suspects, he would play in fair territory...
Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
The release of internal Bush administration interrogation memos this week answered long-standing questions about the CIA's techniques for getting pris...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as...
Malou Innocent | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Despite what Vice President Cheney wants Americans to believe, his favored policies have neither made us safer nor limited the ability of terrorists to plan another attack.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The CIA destroyed a dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according to documents filed Friday in a lawsuit o...
John Cusack | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Try them, and let a jury decide. We know ours is not a nation of cowards. What will our leaders do?
John Seery | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
It's becoming clearer and clearer that official acts of cruelty had little to do, either in intent or effect, with enhancing national security or producing reliable intelligence.
Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.
David Danzig | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Interrogators are lauding President Obama for signing an executive order that will shut down secret CIA prisons and place the use of coercive interrogation techniques completely off limits.
David Danzig | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment
Junior soldiers have imitated techniques they have seen on the program. And military educators report that "24" is one of the biggest problems they have in their classrooms.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — While eager to find out more about the Bush administration's harsh interrogation and detainee policies, Senate Democrats are hintin...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher
The Plumline | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics