CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...
Nathan Havey | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
His scathing portrayals of Rice focus largely on the human rights consequences of Bush administration policies, responsibility for which, Doggarts' films lay at the feet of the former Secretary of State.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.
Bryant Welch | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
If we can identify the real problem that caused the tragedy at Ford Hood we can possibly prevent such episodes in the future. Our troops have been through enough.
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rura...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.
Nan Aron | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
A change in leadership does not eliminate the need to examine our system and learn from our history, even when -- especially when -- our Department of Justice was corrupted to the point of sanctioning torture.
Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | Home
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making...
The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met ...
AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA ove...
Tom Andrews | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Rosanne Cash appeared on the Colbert Report last night on the use of music to torture at Guantanamo, and she made it clear: using music as torture is wrong and there's no gray area.
Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
Recently I have been in touch with Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantánamo in February -- after seven years' captivity without charges.
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.
Reuters | Steve Gorman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
Eric Dezenhall | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Call me a socialist, but I have believed for decades that the Department of Justice should actively monitor Top 40 Hits because certain songs could lead upstanding citizens to confess to crimes that they did not commit.
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
By lobbying to keep Guantanamo Bay open, Liz Cheney's group is helping keep alive one of the greatest recruiting posters that al Qaeda ever had.
Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.24.2009 | Impact
Music is perhaps the freest expression of art in an open society. In my travels to more than 50 countries, a sense of pride has always emerged for American culture abroad in the form of music.
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Those who focus solely on the closing of Gitmo merely invite the US government to move any detainees still in need of further 'care' to Bagram, which is in a similarly lawless situation, if not more so.
Stephen Baldwin | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Why, after his boss, President Obama, has publicly expressed a position to the contrary, would Attorney General Eric Holder continue on a rogue course of "seeking truth"?
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.
The Guardian | Ian Cobain | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
A British mining corporation is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast cop...
ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World