Obama's handling of the CIA's report on torture may be the last chance he has to find his way back to Grant Park.
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
In order to learn more about the mysterious "prolonged diapering" technique formerly employed by the CIA -- possibly the technique nebulously referred...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Conservatives and liberals alike reacted critically, though for different reasons, to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to ap...
AP | PAMELA HESS and MATT APUZZO | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interroga...
Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has been forced by the ACLU to release its report on Bush-era interrogation operations written by former...
Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
By STEVEN R. HURST and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON - CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at t...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
This had been expected, and I've confirmed it: The CIA today will release the two documents Dick Cheney requested this spring that he claims will prov...
Newsweek | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock ex...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Even as the issue of torture appears likely to burst back onto the public agenda next week -- thanks to the much anticipated release of an internal CI...
Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
The disclosure Wednesday of the CIA's decision five years ago to let a private security contractor help manage its sensitive effort to kill senior al-...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The CIA hired private contractors from Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, bu...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
We were told that we went to Afghanistan to fight the terrorists there, so we wouldn't have to fight them at home. That was eight long years ago.
Dave Astor | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
Robert Novak liked to think of himself as a tough journalist -- "The Prince of Darkness" and all that. But like a lot of "tough" journalists, he wasn'...
Richard Laermer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Robert Novak was disliked by many -- liberals, mostly -- but he was a soldier, veteran, and a remarkable, unceasing journalist.
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
From what I have been able to gather about the workings of Bagram, I have no reason to conclude that the prison is now being run according to the Geneva Conventions.
New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON and MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- In March 2003, two C.I.A. officials surprised Kyle D. Foggo, then the chief of the agency's main European supply base, with an unusual r...
Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
John Brennan's role as a top national security honcho in the Obama administration shows the limitations of Obama's "look to the future, not to the past" mantra.
Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Panetta's -- and Obama's -- instincts are correct when they promise to protect the CIA's rank and file from prosecution. But protecting the troops from prosecution is not the same as resisting accountability.
The Washington Independent | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
This case has dropped a off the radar screen lately, but Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle today reminds us that the Obama administration is s...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Taliban chief was killed by a CIA missile strike, a militant commander confirmed Friday – a severe blow to extremis...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."
The Washington Independent | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
I'll have a broader piece up soon about John Brennan's speech about counterterrorism, which in many ways represented a stark departure from several ke...
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.
Frank Naif | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is pressing the UK to protect US detention and torture secrets, but British courts may have the last word as two major torture cases move ahead.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics