Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover
Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...
Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...
Mark Levine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
For anyone who's traveled unembedded through Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation began five years ago, Andrew Sullivan's warning brings a sad smile of recognition, and a hope that his words will prove prophetic.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | 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 01.24.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...
Naomi Wolf | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
We can guess what is probably on the missing CIA interrogation tapes -- as well as understand why those implicated are spinning so hard to pretend the tapes do not document a series of evident crimes.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
So much for American values. The U.S. government had officially endorsed torture, in secret, of course.
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Salon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics