Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."
Guardian | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 08.05.2009 | World
Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) lambasted transparency advocates at a press conference Tuesday, when they renewed their p...
Tom Hayden | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Silence in the face of the censorship means collaborating in the cover-up of torture.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
With the war supplemental under fire from some unlikely allies in the House, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Mond...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
American law is clear as to what constitutes torture. Those within the Bush administration who sanctioned torture, deliberately and unapologetically violated U.S. law and must be held responsible.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Why are the Congressional leadership of both parties bizarrely silent now, when the American people are demanding an investigation and prosecution of the crimes represented in the abuse photos?
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
In an interview with CNN's Campbell Brown, former president Jimmy Carter said he disagreed with President Obama's decision to oppose the release of ph...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
White House reporters received an unusual email on Saturday, with a subject line stating, "Important Please Read: From White House Press Secretary Rob...
The Daily Beast | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon is denying the facts: Photographs of Abu Ghraib torture are even more sexually explicit than first reported, including rape and sodomy, w...
Martin Garbus | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
War does terrible things to all soldiers and all civilians. The American people should know the price our soldiers and the people we fight with pay.
Posted 06.27.2009 | World
The Pentagon on Thursday denied the Daily Telegraph report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. President Obama wants to block...
Gara LaMarche | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Obama has genuine real-world issues to balance, and I have no reason to believe he has not arrived at these few controversial decisions genuinely and in a typically thoughtful and engaged manner.
Martin Garbus | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Our failure to show we will stop the torture, in every possible way, is a fatal mistake that probably will lead to more Americans being mistreated.
Roderick Spencer | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Until both sides have the courage to recognize themselves in each other, and in the torture pictures, debate is useless. People on the Left are just as capable of rationalizing cruelty as people on the Right.
John Cusack | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
What is most disturbing about the refusal to release the abuse photos is the broader pattern into which it fits -- a pattern of decisions that effectively preserve the framework of Bush's War on Terror.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Obama's decision was based on a recognition that he's a young, untested, and perceived liberal Democrat, and therefore widely suspected as weak on national security and military toughness.
John Cusack | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.
Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Until we take off our blindfolds, until we truly hold accountable those who authorized these heinous acts, we will continue to endanger not only ourselves, but our troops.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
In case you were wondering, I am of the opinion that President Barack Obama's decision to not release those detainee abuse photos is a mistake. The d...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is tentatively standing by President Obama's decision to withhold photos of U.S. personnel reportedly tortu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Senator Russ Feingold became one of the first elected officials to criticize Barack Obama for his reversal on releasing of detainee abuse in a stateme...
Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics