U.S. Senator John McCain, a torture survivor from his days as a captive during the Vietnam War, says his private comments about harsh interrogation me...
washingtonpost.com | Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood befo...
Huff Radio | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
We lead the discussion about Ted Kennedy's legacy and will "win one for Ted" make Congressional members change their mind on health care reform?
Amnesty International | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home
Congress needs to pass legislation that will close the legal vacuum in which private military and security companies are operating.
Stephen Rickard | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
President Obama and the Interrogation Task Force deserve high praise for making a decisive break with Bush Administration practices, but some forms of torture remain on the books.
Rawstory.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Since Monday, when the CIA released a significant part of those documents -- a 2004 CIA inspector general's report on torture practices -- there has b...
AP | PAMELA HESS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tac...
Stanley Kutler | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The president should be challenged. His campaign words on torture are empty, rendered meaningless with his "new" policy on rendition.
Charles S. Faddis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
I have no doubt that the Attorney General is acting in what he believes to be the country's best interest. I also have no doubt that launching this inquiry will have a catastrophic effect on the CIA.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
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.
TIME | MIchael Scherer and Bobby Ghosh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics