I would like to balance this crazy talk about whether torture is good policy with a counter-balancing, air-clearing, broad assertion: war is torture.
John L. Esposito | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
The recent release of CIA memos regarding the use of torture, in particular water boarding, have been a grim reminder of the legacy of the Bush era.
Errol Morris | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?
NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and...
Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The New York Times reports this morning that according to recently declassified documents, the federal judge overseeing the case of Abu Zubayday was s...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that CIA interrogation videotapes may have been relevant to his court case, and he gave the Bush admi...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
There are good days in court, and there are bad days in court. From The New York Times: "I'm asked to believe that actual motion pictures, videotapes...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Porter Goss never criticized plans to destroy interrogation videotapes, a lawyer said Thursday as the investiga...
Politico | Daniel Reilly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney General Michael Mukasey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of the month, his first appearance before the committee...
ABC News | John Cochran | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In a closed door hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Congress plans to ask why the CIA destroyed tapes showing interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda opera...
Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A federal judge refused on Wednesday to delve into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, saying there was no evidence the Bush administration v...
Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorneys for Jose Rodriguez told Congress the former CIA official won't testify about the destruction of CIA videotapes without a promise of immunity...
Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney general Michael Mukasey's decision to launch a full-scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed ...
NY Times | Ariel Alexovich | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department's criminal inquiry into the destruction of the Central Intelligence Agency interrogation tapes will be carried out largely by a...
Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
For the high-profile, politically charged investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, the Justice Department is turning to a low-p...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey ap...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In its attempts to uncover all materials related to the 9/11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission specifically requested material about the interrogations of ...
New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central ...
AFP | Roland Lloyd Parry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
US government lawyers flatly denied Friday that videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained any scenes of the torture of terror suspects in Guantanamo B...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena Thursday for Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who directed that secret interrogation videota...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
To the surprise of nobody, the New York Times this morning reported that, as it turns out, four White House officials - Harriet Miers, John Bellinger,...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A federal judge has ordered a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When news broke that the CIA had kept videotapes showing torture of detainees secret and then secretly destroyed them, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) was fast ...
TPMmuckraker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
"It smells like the coverup of the coverup." That's Rep. Jane Harman's (D-CA) take. And Rep. Pete Hoekstra's (R-MI) wasn't any different. In case yo...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department's inquiry into the destructi...
Rick Ayers | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics