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Bipartisan Support for Releasing the Torture Report

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

The United States has a history of providing important moral leadership in many areas. But by shrouding our tortured past in secret, we endanger both our country's moral legacy and our national security.

United States Must Ensure Accountability for "War on Terror" Abuses

David Tolbert | Posted 04.26.2013 | World
David Tolbert

The U.S. Department of Justice now has sufficient information to warrant a criminal investigation of those who commissioned and approved policies that resulted in torture and illegal treatment of detainees. There is indeed a moral imperative to get to the bottom of this dark chapter in American history.

Ryan J. Reilly

Military Finally Declassifies Motion On Gitmo Detainees' Thoughts

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military has finally declassified a year-old legal motion by lawyers for Guantanamo detainees that sought to declassify their c...

Toward Ensuring an End to U.S.-Sponsored Torture

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

A non-governmental, bipartisan task force recently completed a two-year investigation into the U.S. government's treatment of 9/11 detainees, concluding indisputably that the United States government engaged in illegal torture.

If You're Not Going to Prosecute Those Involved in Torture, Can You at Least Not Promote Them Please?

Raha Wala | Posted 04.12.2013 | World
Raha Wala

Influential members of Congress and presidential candidates have been calling for a return to "enhanced interrogation techniques" and someday in the not too distant future they may get what they want if Director Brennan and President Obama don't pay attention and act now.

Society Instructs Hollywood on 'Moral Ambiguity' of Torture: Or, What the Zero Dark Thirty Controversy Means

Carla Seaquist | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics
Carla Seaquist

Film, whether big-screen or TV, is a powerful medium of representation; it has the power to define. And with this controversy, Society pushed back and said we do not like how this film represents or defines us.

Matt Sledge

CIA Nomination Advances As White House Drags Feet On Torture Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.05.2013 | Politics

The Senate Intelligence Committee put John Brennan one step closer to leading the CIA on Tuesday, even though the White House has missed a deadline ab...

Let's Crowdsource Our Own Hollywood Movie About Torture

Ateqah Khaki | Posted 04.28.2013 | Impact
Ateqah Khaki

Now more than ever, Americans must come together and send a message once and for all that torture is immoral, illegal and ineffective.

Zero Dark Thirty: After Oscar Snub, the Debate Deepens

Dan Siegel | Posted 04.27.2013 | Politics
Dan Siegel

The controversy and shortcomings of Zero Dark Thirty has opened a critical conversation and debate. Hopefully it will lead to brave new Hollywood storytelling about these years when America went in search of monsters to destroy, and ended up slaying things once held dear.

Senators Must Not Let John Brennan Dodge Serious Legal Questions

Coleen Rowley | Posted 02.25.2013 | Politics
Coleen Rowley

Senator Rand Paul is not the only one with serious questions about the nomination of John Brennan for CIA Director! Many people are rightly concerned ...

John Brennan's Rocky Reception On Torture

Matt Sledge | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics
Matt Sledge

John Brennan's confirmation hearings begin February 7. That means he has a week to get his story straight on torture, a topic that will most certainly...

WATCH: John Kiriakou On 30-Month Sentence: "It's Sad To Me That I'm The Only One Going To Prison"

Posted 01.31.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, sentenced last week to 30 months in prison for disclosing classified information to journalists, gave an in-depth in...

Seeing Torture for What It Is

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

Torture was not a part of the interrogation plan for every detainee, and torture most certainly did not provide the critical intelligence leading to finding bin Laden.

Defense Lawyers Want Access to Secret Gitmo Prison Camp

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.31.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

Should defense lawyers in the September 11 terrorism case be allowed to visit the secret camp where their clients are imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay? And if so, how much access to the prison is enough?

Top 5 Reasons to Preserve the CIA Black Sites

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Daphne Eviatar

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators have asked the government to preserve the notorious "black sites" where U.S. agents tortured detainees after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Here are five good reasons the government should do so.

In Defense of Zero Dark Thirty

Michael Moore | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Michael Moore

That really should be the main takeaway from Zero Dark Thirty: That good detective work can bring fruitful results -- and that torture is wrong. Eight years of torture -- no bin Laden. Two years of detective work -- boom! Bin Laden!

Zero Dark Thirty -- Truth or Consequences

Michael Brenner | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Michael Brenner

The version of events offered by Zero Dark Thirty substitutes pulp fiction -- of the mythological kind -- for truth. It satisfies a gnawing hunger; it meets a powerfully felt need.

In President Obama's Second Term, Accountability for Torture

Curt Goering | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics
Curt Goering

President Obama can again show the world that the United States is committed to living up to our standards by thoroughly investigating and making public all reports of torture and cruel treatment and by holding accountable those responsible for the abuse.

Torture and Zero Dark Thirty

David Bromwich | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics
David Bromwich

The answers given by Bigelow and Boal to justify the normalizing of torture in Zero Dark Thirty have been vain, wheedling, and dodgy. They are a clever pair of filmmakers, without political or moral depth, but here, perhaps more than they realized, they were playing with fire.

'Zero Sum Dark Thirty': Stop the Torture

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 03.18.2013 | Entertainment
Rabbi Jennifer Krause

This widespread inability to see anything in the film but the subject of torture blinds us to the greater complexities it brings to the big screen and, as a result, to the question it raises in the big picture of American life after catching our breath from the chase the film depicts.

A Different Take on Torture and Zero Dark Thirty

Pammela Saunders | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics
Pammela Saunders

Zero Dark Thirty is a film about torture and its impacts. But those claiming that these were bad choices that could have been avoided without undermining the story of the hunt for bin Laden miss the point.

Zero Dark Thirty's Disturbing Flirt With Evil

Marina Nemat | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics
Marina Nemat

The movie Zero Dark Thirty opens with a torture seen, which is not unlike what I went through in Evin Prison in Tehran in 1982.

ReThink Review: Zero Dark Thirty - Yes, It Endorses Torture

Jonathan Kim | Posted 03.13.2013 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

Zero Dark Thirty works as a crime procedural, but its irresponsible, destructive, dishonest stance on torture absolutely ruined it for me, and I feel Zero Dark Thirty should not be on any best-of-the-year lists, nor is it deserving of Oscar consideration.

Should Oscar Go To Pro-Torture 'Zero Dark Thirty'?

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 03.12.2013 | Religion
Rabbi Arthur Waskow

While I would certainly have opposed any governmental attempt to prohibit its release, it is shameful that "Zero Dark Thirty" was even considered for an Oscar -- an award, an honor, a celebration.

Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style

Karen J. Greenberg | Posted 03.12.2013 | Politics
Karen J. Greenberg

11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Zero Dark Thirty opens nationwide. The filmmakers and distributors are evidently ignorant of the significance of the date -- a perfect indication of the carelessness and thoughtlessness of the film.