Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
By Alfred W. McCoy Jun 11, 2009
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Government officials brace as long-anticipated report on torture is finally set to be released
By Vincent Rossmeier
August 24, 2009
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It's time to scapegoat low-level torturers in order to shield the high-level officials who are responsible.
By Glenn Greenwald
July 27, 2009
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The Pentagon says no sexual abuse, no Abu Ghraib photos among those held back in ACLU suit.
By Mark Benjamin
June 2, 2009
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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.
By Marcy Wheeler
May 18, 2009
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The government will have an additional 30 days to prepare for a fight over releasing the pictures
By Alex Koppelman
June 1, 2009
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After the invasion of Iraq, Gen. Geoffrey Miller told the Iraq Survey Group they were "running a country club" and needed to get tough on prisoners.
By Mark Benjamin
May 15, 2009
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Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical.
By Sheri Fink
May 8, 2009
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A Senate report shows that during the Bush administration's War on Terror, mental health professionals raised questions about harsh interrogations -- but helped design interrogation programs anyway.
By Sheri Fink
May 5, 2009
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The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib.
By Mike Madden
April 22, 2009
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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.
By Mark Benjamin
December 1, 2008
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The president might issue a blanket pardon to block prosecution of top U.S. officials behind brutal interrogations -- including himself.
By James Ross
July 10, 2008
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Newly public evidence sheds greater light on Bush officials' efforts to develop brutal interrogation techniques for the war on terror.
By Mark Benjamin
June 18, 2008
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A man who claims he was held at Abu Ghraib for almost a year has filed a lawsuit against two firms, saying he suffered physical and mental torture while imprisoned.
By Alex Koppelman
May 5, 2008
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Errol Morris on his film "Standard Operating Procedure," why Lynndie England and others took photographs, and how the infamous images conceal as much as they reveal (podcast and video).
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 25, 2008
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Congress must remedy its abysmal record of investigating the Bush administration on prisoner abuse and torture.
By Anthony D. Romero
February 15, 2008
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A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons. A Salon exclusive.
By Mark Benjamin
December 14, 2007
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The network of U.S.-sponsored terrorism now on global display relies on death squads, disappearances and torture.
By Greg Grandin
December 14, 2007
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The fate of prisoners secreted away under the Bush administration is in some ways worse than even Hollywood has portrayed.
By Stephen Grey
November 5, 2007
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Why the White House should turn over secret legal memos, and why I'm sponsoring legislation to end brutal interrogations.
By Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
October 10, 2007
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Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win wars like that in Iraq.
By P.W. Singer
October 2, 2007
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His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 27, 2007
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Alberto Gonzales' successor will face a heckuva job rectifying the damage the attorney general did to American justice.
By David Cole
August 28, 2007
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At their annual convention, psychologists officially condemned some brutal interrogation techniques, but critics decry a resolution they say isn't stringent enough.
By Mark Benjamin
August 21, 2007
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Two charges are dropped against the only officer prosecuted for abuse; an investigator says he failed to read him his rights.
By Tim Grieve
August 20, 2007
The CIA's secret history of psychological torture
What they're saying: Today's big CIA/torture report
The Washington Post endorses Abu Ghraib scapegoating for torture
Suppressed images don't show rape, official says
The 13 people who made torture possible
A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture
The reluctant enablers of torture
Rumsfeld: Architect of torture
Sympathy for Charles Graner
Beware Bush's preemptive strike on torture
A timeline to Bush government torture
Interrogating Abu Ghraib
Uncovering the truth about CIA torture tapes
Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"
America's trinity of terrorism
The agonizing truth about CIA renditions
We must ban secretive U.S. torture
The dark truth about Blackwater
Dan Rather stands by his story
The dismal legacy of Bush's top yes man
Will psychologists still abet torture?
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