Law School Study Finds Evidence Of Cover-Up After Three Alleged Suicides At Guantanamo In 2006
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post On the night of June 9-10 in 2006, three prisoners held at the Guantánamo prison's Camp Delta died u...
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post On the night of June 9-10 in 2006, three prisoners held at the Guantánamo prison's Camp Delta died u...
Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post Seton Hall law professor Mark Denbeaux supervised the report issued this morning examining the Defens...
AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their ...
AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeals court ruling ordering the disclosure of photographs of detainees being abused by their ...
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Having toured it, I give the new Bagram detention facility a "vastly improved" grade compared to what it was before. But, that being said, U.S. detention policy still has a long way to go.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
Naomi Wolf | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
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.
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 ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
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.
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! ...
John Cusack | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
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.
ProPublica | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
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.
Mary Mapes | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
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?
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...
ProPublica | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
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.
Vivian Gembara | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
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.
Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics