Abu Ghraib

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  • Bush's torture ban is full of loopholes

    The president has issued an executive order to stop the CIA from using torture, but the ban is unenforceable.
    By David Cole July 23, 2007

  • Abu Ghraib investigator: I was pushed out

    Maj. Gen. Paul Taguba says he thought, naively, that Pentagon officials wanted to know the truth.
    By Tim Grieve June 18, 2007

  • The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence

    The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability.
    By Tim Shorrock June 1, 2007

  • The military's interrogation secrets

    A newly declassified Pentagon report details the development of interrogation methods used at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
    May 31, 2007

  • The CIA's latest "ghost detainee"

    New details confirm a CIA prisoner disappeared in U.S. custody for months, renewing suspicions the agency could be violating the law and using torture.
    By Mark Benjamin May 22, 2007

  • The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found

    With a couple of keystrokes, you too can read the hidden history of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's late, unlamented occupation government in Iraq.
    By Pete Moore May 18, 2007

  • Bush's favorite historian

    British author Alistair Horne explains what Pinochet, Sharon and Bush have all taken from his work, why peace means getting rid of the priests, and why Iraq is the wrong war in the wrong place.
    By Gary Kamiya May 8, 2007

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    A movie about the Bush-Cheney policy of torture that will make you shake with rage. Plus: Alec Baldwin's unintended laugh lines.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 30, 2007

  • America's dangerous trigger finger

    Why the killing of civilians by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq could have profound strategic consequences.
    By David J. Morris April 26, 2007

  • From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib

    To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 26, 2007

  • Alberto Gonzales must go

    The U.S. attorney general's willingness to serve as the president's ultimate yes man makes him unqualified for the office.
    By Joe Conason March 12, 2007

  • "We listened as his soul cracked"

    In HBO's "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" the "bad apples" express remorse, but claim that they were scapegoats.
    By Heather Havrilesky February 22, 2007

  • Better late than never

    The Pentagon figures out that it "wouldn't be prudent" to send a convicted Abu Ghraib dog handler back for another tour in Iraq.
    By Tim Grieve November 3, 2006

  • A convicted Abu Ghraib dog handler heads back to Iraq

    His unit will train Iraqi police.
    By Tim Grieve November 3, 2006

  • GOP congressman: Abu Ghraib was just a "sex ring"

    Fresh off of downplaying Foleygate, Christopher Shays declares what happened at Abu Ghraib "not torture."
    By Tim Grieve October 13, 2006

  • Psychological warfare

    Angered that their professional organization has adopted a policy condoning psychologists' participation in "war on terror" interrogations, many psychologists are vowing to stage a battle royal at the APA's annual meeting.
    By Mark Benjamin July 26, 2006

  • U.S. accused of kidnappings in Iraq

    Congress demands that the Pentagon release documents that could show U.S. forces kidnapped family members of terror suspects.
    By Mark Benjamin July 14, 2006

  • Torture teachers

    An Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.
    By Mark Benjamin June 29, 2006

  • "You want to shoot them"

    Convinced that kids were spying on them, sick of seeing buddies blown apart, the Marines accused of the Haditha massacre cracked.
    By Mark Benjamin June 8, 2006

  • "No one died at Abu Ghraib" isn't true

    In the rush to condemn Haditha, misinformation about Abu Ghraib spreads.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski May 30, 2006

  • If Abu Ghraib was a "mistake," what was Haditha?

    Marines may face murder charges in the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians.
    By Tim Grieve May 26, 2006

  • The Pentagon's ghost investigation

    Nearly two years ago, a top general urged a probe into illegal "ghost detainees" held at Abu Ghraib prison. But according to the Pentagon, it never happened -- and never will.
    By Mark Benjamin and Michael Scherer May 17, 2006

  • First officer is charged in Abu Ghraib scandal

    Former interrogation director Lt. Col. Steven Jordan reacted to ongoing abuse by building a plywood wall to hide it, according to documents obtained by Salon.
    By Mark Benjamin April 29, 2006

  • A Miller whitewash?

    An Army report found Maj. Gen. Miller did not lie when he told Congress he held no "direct discussions" with top Pentagon officials -- even though he met with Rumsfeld aide Stephen Cambone after visiting Abu Ghraib.
    By Mark Benjamin and Michael Scherer April 25, 2006

  • More top brass blast Rumsfeld

    Two retired generals and an admiral denounce his leadership -- and say he's protected by a handpicked ring of high-ranking yes men.
    By Mark Follman April 25, 2006
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