Torture Report From 2004 Released by CIA (Help Read Through It)
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has been forced by the ACLU to release its report on Bush-era interrogation operations written by former...
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has been forced by the ACLU to release its report on Bush-era interrogation operations written by former...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that wate...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration....
CBS | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who ran Iraq prisons in 2003, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was insistent that all orders on interrogat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
On Monday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), rejected calls for the impeachment of federal judge and torture memo author Jay Bybee, saying that he was "one o...
AP | NATASHA METZLER | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday defended before his most skeptical audience his decision to release Bush-era memos outlining inter...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called Monday for the impeachment of federal judge Jay Bybee, one of the princi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
Sunday's New York Times called on Congress to impeach federal judge Jay Bybee over his now infamous role in authoring one of the Bush administration m...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's release of classified Bush-era memos on harsh CIA interrogations was delayed for nearly a month in part ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Rush Limbaugh read the torture memos and got inspired to perform a brief act of self-torture and strenuous exercise, just like the old-timey radio por...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
In an effort to rationalize the use of dietary manipulation on detainees, Bush administration officials turned to Slim Fast and Jenny Craig. In a fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
With reporting by Stuart Whatley A Bush administration memo from 2005, intended to establish a legal basis for aggressive interrogation techniques, c...
Bloomberg | Karen Gullo | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration, seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by a U.S. citizen convicted of terrorism who claims he was tortured, defended former government...
The Washington Independent | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn't regret the substa...
The Plum Line | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Yesterday I pointed you to this big scoop in Newsweek reporting that an internal Justice Department review conducted under the Bush administration had...
Andy Worthington | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics
Cheney's version of the truth on interrogations does not stand up to scrutiny, and features ten lies that should not be allowed to pass without further comment and analysis.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Salon | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? This week, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal ...
NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...
Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics