Torture Without Accountability
In the wake of 9/11, dozens of people were arbitrarily detained and tortured by the American government, sometimes with lethal consequences. These practices were not only grotesquely immoral but...
View ArticleTorture Report
Flickr/Shrieking TreeAs Americans grapple with the tragic bombings in Boston on Monday and the U.S. government works to track down those responsible, a new report on detainee treatment after 9/11 sheds...
View ArticleDick Cheney Still Thinks He Was a Character on "24"
One of these two is not a real person.Dick Cheney felt moved to write an entire book about the heart troubles he's had over the years, which I can understand. After all, we all find our particular...
View ArticleDon't Let the Bush Administration Off the Hook For Torture
There's a new report out today from McClatchey on the CIA's torture program based on that Intelligence Committee report. They got a closer look at it than journalists have before, so there are some...
View ArticleThe New York Times Finally Comes Around on "Torture"
An enhanced interrogation chair from the Inquisition. (Flickr/Anguskirk)The New York Times has finally decided, only a decade or so too late, that it will now use the word "torture" to describe the...
View ArticleA Taxonomy of Torture Defenses
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary of its report on the CIA's use of torture during George W. Bush's administration (this is a 480-page version;...
View ArticleWhat You Really Need to Know About the Torture Report
CIA.govThis article was originally published by BillMoyers.com . O n Tuesday, amid much controversy and after a year of political combat between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA, a...
View ArticleDo Republicans Want to Bring Torture Back?
A medieval use of stress positions, an oldie but a goodie. (Flickr/Curious Expeditions) I'd like to follow up on a question I've raised yesterday and today over at the Post (see here and here )...
View ArticleHas the GOP Become the Pro-Torture Party?
If you'll permit me a momentary bit of crowing, I'd like to take some credit for what we learned from Dick Cheney's appearance on Meet the Press last Sunday. Not that we didn't already know about...
View ArticleMore Disturbing Revelations About the CIA Torture Program
Wikimedia CommonsThe most important thing to read today is this extraordinary report from Matthew Cole of NBC News about one CIA officer, the agency's top expert on al-Qaeda, and her trail of screw-ups...
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