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IraqTortureGate: Powell Denies Knowing He Used Tortured Evidence for UN Case

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.26.2009 | World


Robert Naiman

"Speculation by people who never attended meetings"? Who is Powell trying to discredit? The Senate Intelligence Committee? Or his own former chief deputy?

US Skeptical That Former CIA Detainee's Death In Libyan Jail Was Suicide

Newsweek | Posted 06.17.2009 | Home


The Obama Administration is pressing the Libyan government to explain the reported prison death of a former CIA detainee--an incident that U.S. offici...

Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.30.2009 | World


Andy Worthington

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two)

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics


Andy Worthington

I have covered the Military Commissions in depth and at no point has it ever been demonstrated that the system dreamt up by Cheney and Addington in November 2001 is "fair and honest."