Some say we are making great progress in the "war on terror" -- there has been some decline in the number of casualties and there is increasing debate within jihadist circles over the legitimacy of attacks.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
If the response of some 15,000 of St. Paul's mainstream motorists this Mother's Day was any indication, there is a way around the power of the special interests and corporate media.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
We gave this particular moment some special attention on our Sunday Morning Liveblog today, but it deserves some special attention and scrutiny. We'r...
William Fisher | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Is it possible that the American people -- and the world -- are finally about to learn how George W. Bush decided that waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" were "legal"?
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
In light of the comments made by CIA sources in 2005, I can only wonder how it's feasible for Michael Hayden to assert that waterboarding was restricted to three "high-value" detainees.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Let me share this recent comment forwarded to me by Monica Gabrielle of the September 11th Advocates
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey ap...
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics
This destruction of evidence may violate several laws. And it remains to be seen how high up the chain of command the criminality goes.
William Fisher | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
The destruction of the CIA tapes has raised questions about whether CIA officials withheld information from Congress, the courts and the Sept. 11 commission about aspects of the program.
AFP | Olivier Knox | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
The White House, under mounting pressure in the CIA's destruction of terrorism suspect interrogation videotapes, made an unusually aggressive push Wed...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
The White House argues that the newspaper article implies that "there is an effort to mislead in this matter," adding that such a conclusion is "perni...
AFP | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
The White House on Wednesday made a rare public demand for a formal correction from the New York Times for implying that it had misled the US public o...
Reuters | Randall Mikkelsen | Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics
Congress members vowed on Sunday to investigate the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes despite Justice Department advice that the agency no...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
Thirty retired admirals and generals have penned a letter to key Democrats, urging them to defy President Bush's veto threats and pass legislation req...
Bob Franken | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
Isn't this a country whose fundamental traditions are openness and government accountability...as opposed to expedience?
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about...
Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden faces two days of testimony behind closed doors at the Senate and House intelligence committees to answer questions a...
CBS News | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
As Congress seeks answers about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, White House lawyers have advised President Bush's ...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
The egregious redactions and erasures made by Bush are not only in violation of the Presidential Records Act, they are an effront to Congress, the Constitution, and international law.
UPI | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Sunday a special counsel should be named to investigate the destruction of videotapes of CIA terror suspect interrog...
August J. Pollak | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Since everyone knows the head of the CIA can't possibly be lying, the only other possibility is a woeful state of government video-editing technology....
AP | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.07.2007 | Home
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA obstructed justice by destroying videotapes that doc...
BBC News | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics
The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has defended the methods it uses to interrogate terror suspects. Gen Hayd...
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe,...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
The Bush...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
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The New York Times has rejected an op-ed penned by Senator John McCain in response...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Bernard I. Finel | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics