Detainee Abuse

Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...

Mohammed al-Qahtani Torture Tapes To Be Released To Detainee's Lawyers

Washington Post | Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and o...

NYT Breaks Down Cheney's Twisted Version Of History

New York Times | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


After the C.I.A. inspector general's report on prisoner interrogation was released last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney settled into his usual...

Diapering: New Torture Technique Revealed By Report

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...

Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

UN Human Rights Chief Criticizes Obama Administration Over Detainee Treatment

The Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics


The U.N.'s top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try th...

No Proof Detainee Photos Led to Military Deaths

CQ Politics | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


The U.S. government's case for embargoing the release of photographs said to depict abuse of detainees rests largely on a questionable claim that disc...

Busted, Pentagon: Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped

Naomi Wolf | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


Naomi Wolf

Is systemic sex crime practiced by the US in a consequence of the lawlessness of "the war on terror" surprising to those of us who work on issues of sexual abuse and war? It is totally predictable.

Obama Administration Cites Secret Statements By Petraeus In Asking Judge To Block Abuse Photos

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to halt the release of disturbing images of detainee abuse, saying ...

Col. Wilkerson: "Cheney Kept Some Things From the President"

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

We interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and he had some very interesting things to say about Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Jason Linkins

Abu Ghraib Ties To Gitmo Shown By DOJ Memos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics


Yesterday, in his remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, former Vice President Dick Cheney protested that everyone had Abu Ghraib all wrong! ...

A War on Terror by Any Other Name

John Cusack | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


John Cusack

What is most disturbing about the refusal to release the abuse photos is the broader pattern into which it fits -- a pattern of decisions that effectively preserve the framework of Bush's War on Terror.

McCain Backs Obama Detainee Photo Decision

The New York Times | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Senator John McCain on Thursday welcomed President Obama's decision to oppose the release of photographs documenting prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghan...

Obama Makes Terrible Mistake by Not Releasing Pictures

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

Obama has not just protected the torturers, but empowered them. They now get to claim they tried to protect America and that anyone who tries to show their misdeeds endangers America.

Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Gitmo Cases

ProPublica | Posted 06.08.2009 | World


ProPublica

A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a Bush-era federal court order.

Looking Back at Abu Ghraib 5 Years Later

Mary Mapes | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics


Mary Mapes

Five years ago, I was at work at CBS News in New York, holding a manila folder to my chest, guarding it with my life. Inside, there were pictures from Abu Ghraib.

A Reasonable Observer's Response to the Torture Memos

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics


Martha St Jean

The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?

Jason Linkins

Colbert Torches Obama On Bagram Decision (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics


While he only dedicated the first two minutes of his show to the issue, Stephen Colbert's mini-segment on President Barack Obama's decision to preserv...

What We Do And Don't Know About US Medical Personnel and Interrogations

ProPublica | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics


ProPublica

The list of unknowns is long. How, why and when the CIA brought SERE-affiliated psychologists and psychiatrists into the interrogation strategy of detainees remains a mystery.

Afghanistan: A Surge in ROE Education is the First Step

Vivian Gembara | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


Vivian Gembara

The ugly issue of the misconduct of some U.S. troops in a war zone must be addressed before sending more soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan.

Just What This Heartsick American Needed: A Republican Beacon for Civil Liberties

David Quigg | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics


David Quigg

A Republican almost made me burst into tears. In a good way. Gov. Kean's specifics are a reminder of how much is at stake now and of how bad things have been since 9/11.

Court: US Cannot Block Detainee Abuse Photos From Release

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


NEW YORK — The United States cannot conceal pictures of abusive treatment of detainees by its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by saying their r...

Iraq, Guantanamo Torture Proven By Medical Exams: Report

AP | JAMAL HALABY | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics


AMMAN, Jordan — Four years after his release from Abu Ghraib, Ali al-Qaisi has nightmares and insomnia he blames on injuries _ physical and psyc...

And War Crimes for All....

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics


Larisa Alexandrovna

Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers 'The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and conc...

US Abuse Of Detainees Was Routine At Afghanistan Bases

McClatchy Newspapers | Tom Lasseter | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics


American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock. The guards kicked,...