"Golden Shield" Doesn't Cover Condi's Torture Role
It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.
It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.
David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — High-ranking government officials are usually protected from claims that they violated a person's civil rights. In lawsuits stemmin...
William Fisher | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books
In chillingly uncomplicated prose, Cole argues that these memos are the real "smoking gun" in the torture controversy because they demonstrate that the culpability lies not merely with the CIA interrogators.
Frank Naif | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Instead of using his op-ed soapbox to defend his own indefensible legal justifications of an immoral torture program, maybe Yoo should offer to take the investigative heat for the brave CIA men and women.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
I can't for the life of me figure out why Dick Cheney is still walking around free and -- even worse -- continues to get airtime so he can spew lies about the utter awesomeness of American torture.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
If a person in US custody is presumed innocent until proven guilty, then it does not matter whether or not torture works, does it? We don't torture innocent people, right?
Attackerman | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
As we dig through the latest rounds of torture disclosures, it's instructive to remember a moment from June of 2004. In the aftermath of the Abu Ghrai...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.
AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who c...
Frank Naif | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
From the prosecution and investigatory perspective, torture prosecutions appear fraught from the beginning.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Via Boing Boing comes a video from the Australian comedy show "The Chaser's War on Everything," that shows a man dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner di...
Wall Street Journal | JOHN YOO | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
It was instantly clear after Sept. 11, 2001, that our security agencies knew little about al Qaeda's inner workings, could not detect its operatives' ...
Scott Atran | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
A new government report on the Bush administration's surveillance of personal commmunications reveals a familiar pattern of intellectual deafness and moral abuse of the country.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
The lack of clear ethical rules and the frontier justice mentality in Iceland continues to cause confusion and raise questions about the legal profession's ability to regulate itself in Iceland.
Nick Turse | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
While times are tough for most Americans, one group is doing remarkably well. For former members of the Bush administration, the economic outlook remains bright and jobs are seemingly plentiful.
AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged t...
New York Times | JOHN SCHWARTZ | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home
A federal judge has ruled that John Yoo, a former Bush administration lawyer who wrote crucial memorandums justifying harsh interrogation techniques, ...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
John Yoo, who wrote memos authorizing torture for President Bush, has penned a reaction to Sonia Sotomayor's supreme court nomination. The lawyer, who...
Jim Lichtman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
In a press interview regarding the Iraq war, Vice-President Dick Cheney was asked "Over 70 percent of Americans disagree with this war, what is your r...
Jesse Larner | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
Cheney and his ilk don't understand liberty, and they don't understand freedom, what it costs and what it's worth. They are small men and cowards, selling out the rule of law at the first whiff of danger.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy
Yes, yes, I know, I did it again. In the grand tradition of using John Yoo's name to create dad-jokesque headlines, I too am to blame. But I never tor...
Shannyn Moore | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics