If Holder's inquiry is limited to a few contractors and junior personnel, it runs the risk of repeating the mistakes of Abu Ghraib, when the U.S. government blamed its policies on a few bad apples.
Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
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 09.24.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration will not rule out sending terror suspect to countries known for sanctioning torture. But the White House promised to institut...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
This had been expected, and I've confirmed it: The CIA today will release the two documents Dick Cheney requested this spring that he claims will prov...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bu...
nytimes.com | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department's ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cas...
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.22.2009 | Comedy
Vick has paid his debt to society. Yes, he practiced killing and torture and violated the code of conduct he was sworn to uphold. That doesn't make him a monster. That makes him Dick Cheney.
Newsweek | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock ex...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.
AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who c...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several othe...
Frank Naif | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
From the prosecution and investigatory perspective, torture prosecutions appear fraught from the beginning.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
With increasing accounts of rape, torture, forced confessions and skewed judicial proceedings, the Iranian government is losing any credibility it had left, including any legitimate claim to Islam.
Warren Holstein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy
Allen Keller | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Two health professionals violated fundamental medical ethics while developing and implementing a pervasive system of interrogation by torture.
Nan Aron | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.
Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.
Posted 09.11.2009 | World
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama sharply criticized the Bush Administration's extr...
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
This weekend brought two different statements from representatives of two different governments about the notion of torture being used or condoned by their regimes.
Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
John Brennan's role as a top national security honcho in the Obama administration shows the limitations of Obama's "look to the future, not to the past" mantra.
Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Panetta's -- and Obama's -- instincts are correct when they promise to protect the CIA's rank and file from prosecution. But protecting the troops from prosecution is not the same as resisting accountability.
The Washington Independent | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
This case has dropped a off the radar screen lately, but Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle today reminds us that the Obama administration is s...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
Kabila's army is committing a majority of the atrocities, and Hillary is going to be face to face with the butcher. Can Clinton offer a moral compass in this humanitarian tragedy, or will we once again turn our back on humanity?
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."
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
In "Tortured Logic," a video released by the ACLU today, you'll hear well-known people like Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez and Philip Glass, read from those chilling Justice Department torture memos.
Ari Melber | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics