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  • The CIA's secret history of psychological torture

    Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
  • Rumsfeld denying GQ report

    Through an aide, the former defense secretary says he wasn't responsible for briefings that featured Biblical quotations.
  • The 13 people who made torture possible

    The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
  • Rumsfeld: Architect of torture

    The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib.
  • Rumsfeld was even worse than you thought

    A new report details the anger within the Bush administration toward the former secretary of defense, and shows how he hurt Katrina relief efforts.
  • "Wolfowitz said GTMO should use more aggressive interrogation techniques"

    A Senate report describes how the Bush administration began its torture program -- and may have pushed for the use of torture to produce evidence linking al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein.
  • Report: Torture started with Bush

    After a two-year investigation, the Senate names names -- Bush, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Addington, Rice.
  • Sympathy for Charles Graner

    No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.
  • Is 2008 a sui generis election?

    So much about the Obama-McCain contest breaks the mold -- yet the electoral map is looking eerily familiar.
  • Bush's top general quashed torture dissent

    New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal interrogation tactics.
  • A timeline to Bush government torture

    Newly public evidence sheds greater light on Bush officials' efforts to develop brutal interrogation techniques for the war on terror.
  • Who's the superpower now?

    As oil prices drain the U.S. of military power and influence, Russia is rising as a world force again.
  • Rumsfeld blamed generals for lack of forces in postwar Iraq

    Newly released Pentagon files have the former secretary of defense faulting military commanders for inadequate troop strength.
  • Killing by the numbers

    In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?
  • The GOP on the verge of imploding

    A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat.
  • Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up"

    A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism.
  • Taking stock of the war on terror

    Not only has America not defeated al-Qaida -- but now terrorism has gone viral.
  • The cold price of hot blood

    A devastating new book reveals that Iraq will cost the U.S. at least $3 trillion. Will Americans check their pocketbooks the next time a president tries to sell them on a cheap, glorious war?
  • John McCain's real war record

    On the campaign trail he touts his sharp criticism of Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush administration on Iraq. But a look at McCain's record reveals a different war story.
  • A Rummy-eyed look at Iowa

    We apply Rumsfeld's "known knowns" and "known unknowns" to the caucuses.
  • Battle of the Bushes

    The battle lines between father and son were drawn. In the balance hung policies that would kill and maim hundreds of thousands of people and change the global balance of power for years to come.
  • Red, white and mercenary in Iraq

    Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility.
  • The war president "at peace" with himself

    Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs.
  • Bush's stairway to paradise

    Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.
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