Cia Torture

In the real world, where evidence obtained through torture is inadmissible, it remains unclear whether the government's attempts to set up a judicial system for alleged terrorists will ever be successful.

Over the last several months, there has been a gradual, but unrelenting, outing of the highest level U.S. government involvement in the sordid busines...

In attempting to prevent a calamity, in matching wits with our despicable opponent, we have abandoned certain restraining principles, and in the process, become a moral monster.

While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.

Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantanamo will be aware that their progress has been faltering at best.

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?

The CIA is a wounded culture searching for ways to again become relevant in the fight against terrorism.

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

President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be...

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. ...

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.

What could persuade a victim of North Vietnamese interrogation techniques to abandon his principled stand against torture and side with the architects of Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary rendition?

Is it possible that the American people -- and the world -- are finally about to learn how George W. Bush decided that waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" were "legal"?

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory...

John McCain's unconscionable capitulation on torture -- a desperate attempt to win over the lunatic fringe that is running the GOP -- should drive a stake through the heart of the McCain-as-straight-talker meme once and for all. Read More End of a Romance: Why the Media and Independent Voters Need to Break Up with John McCain McCain is essentially running to give America a third Bush term -- and, indeed, will even out-Bush Bush when it comes to staying the disastrous course we're on in Iraq. If you think the problem with the United States is that we haven't given Bush enough time to finish his agenda, then John McCain is your man. Read More Who Is Maggie Williams?

Today, at 10:30 a.m. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to bring to the floor the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report. One ...

The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11,...

WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...

In light of the comments made by CIA sources in 2005, I can only wonder how it's feasible for Michael Hayden to assert that waterboarding was restricted to three "high-value" detainees.

Alex Gibney, the filmmaker, has done his homework. He is interested in harder questions than simply, "who did this?" He wants to know why and how it could be done better.

The CIA's destruction of evidence suggests contempt not only for the court orders but for the foundational idea that intelligence agencies should be subject to democratic control.

Defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House of Representatives voted Thursday to prohibit waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods...

This destruction of evidence may violate several laws. And it remains to be seen how high up the chain of command the criminality goes.