Okay, this should settle it, but of course it won't: We now have a former homeland security official under George W. Bush who has contradicted the cla...
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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
One of the more difficult rows to hoe in the ongoing debate over detainee treatment has been the insistence by some conservatives, against countervail...
Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
The release of internal Bush administration interrogation memos this week answered long-standing questions about the CIA's techniques for getting pris...
John Cusack | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Try them, and let a jury decide. We know ours is not a nation of cowards. What will our leaders do?
David Danzig | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment
Junior soldiers have imitated techniques they have seen on the program. And military educators report that "24" is one of the biggest problems they have in their classrooms.
Washington Independent | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
At a hearing about interrogation techniques in Guantanamo, the former Under Secretary of Defense explains away abuse: After going back and forth wit...
David Misch | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics
It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really subject our precious national torture resources to Chinese influence?
BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...
CNN | Scott Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that waterboarding should not be used regularly in interrogations, but might be called fo...
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abando...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics