A recently released legal memo describing interrogation techniques showed that Bush Administration lawyers had approved the use of "insects" in interrogations.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Whether called "preventive", "indefinite" or "prolonged," prevention detention schemes are essentially lawless, unconstitutional and un-American. At its root, detention without trial threatens democracy.
Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."
Amnesty International | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
Last month, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani became the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the United States for trial outside of the military commission system.
Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Karzai has shown great political wile in the past year, sugaring up policies, revving up his campaign, maneuvering like a man possessed: he is determined to keep the presidency.
Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
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Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."
AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its prin...
AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that the full withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from cities and towns was a message that his countr...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
TRIESTE, Italy — The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting ef...
Allen Keller | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
We owe torture survivors, and we owe ourselves truth and accountability.
Stephen Rohde | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
I had not expected to be so touched by the outpouring of spiritual faith in peace and justice and the rejection of war and violence.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, I learned that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
So a federal judge has ordered the release of GITMO detainee Abd al Rahim Abdul Rassak, mainly because before he became a prisoner of the United State...
The Washington Post | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
A federal judge today ordered the release of a 30-year-old detainee from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the government's leg...
Matthew Duss | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
You can't actually believe that Obama is "siding with the Iranian regime" against the Iranian people, or that his outreach to Iran depends upon keeping hardliners in power, can you?
The Plumline | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof th...
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
"Guantánamo's Hidden History: Shocking Statistics of Starvation" is a report I've compiled for Cageprisoners analyzing the weight records for prisone...
Mother Jones | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?
Larry Gellman | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
What was once a proud, smart, intelligent, nuanced, and diverse movement has devolved into a combination cult-booster club.
Aram Roston | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics