This video has been making the rounds, but in case you haven't seen it, here's Donald Rumsfeld getting shouted at by Desiree Fairooz and Medea Benjami...
David Fiderer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The story of Taguba's report reflects a truism applicable to every investigation: When large swaths of information are declared off limits, the resulting work product may be fatally flawed.
Scott Shrake | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media
The mix of Beltway media personalities and Hollywood types was jarring but fun.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Time to evolve past Joe the Plumber, past Rush Limbaugh, past the politics and ideology that verge on those that launched the Spanish Inquisition.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy
This conspiracy is bigger than all of us.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
In addition to investigating torture as a war crime it is imperative that we also examine the lies and deceit that led the United States to try to remake the politics of the Middle East.
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
The question of the moment is now, no longer: Is torture un-American? It is: Are we, as a nation, bigger than our transgressions?
Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
I never thought I would say this, but Lynndie England is a symbol of embarrassment. Not because she posed in pictures following orders, but because our government let her take the fall.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
It is worrisome that even the most outraged of our leaders inside the beltway are calling only for the familiar bipartisan truth commission to "investigate."
Hart Bochner | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
It will become its own kind of crime if Obama does not set precedent at such a crucial juncture and pursue justice against the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz rat pack.
Chris Durang | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Why would techniques that succeed in getting false confessions have been of use, as opposed to the traditional and successful psychological interrogation techniques that have a history of working?
Lea Lane | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics
The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
When Donald Rumsfeld approved "enhanced interrogation techniques" for Guantanamo Bay in 2002, there were already serious objections to the use of torture from the military.
Murray Waas | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
If Rumsfeld had any other thoughts at that historic moment in 2002, thus far, that single one is the only known to have been recorded for posterity.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
The UN has indicated that Obama's refusal to prosecute torturers may be a violation of International law.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
See, in a world where things aren't connected to other things -- where you get to handle one thing at a time, in a vacuum, at the pace you choose -- maybe you could consider the war in Iraq a success.
Jonathan Powers | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
I was sick to my stomach this last weekend listening to Dick Cheney tell John King that after 6 years in Iraq "we have accomplished nearly everything we set out to do."
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
For too long, Bush allowed America's foes to dictate events by refusing to engage them. Obama is taking the opposite approach.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Air America conducted a poll that asked a question raised by Time Magazine's Joe Klein: "Should Obama pardon George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick...
AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Army Pvt. Brandon Neely was scared when he took Guantanamo's first shackled detainees off a bus. Told to expect vicious ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media
One of the unseen costs of Tom Daschle using up all of America's car services is that ordinary war-mongering political has-beens are forced to fend fo...
Inter Press Service | By Julio Godoy | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
BERLIN, Feb 2 (IPS) - Now that former U.S. president George W. Bush is an ordinary citizen again, many legal and human rights activists in Europe ar...
Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.
Michael Sigman | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics