Abu Ghraib

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9. Indelible photos made the name Abu Ghraib famous worldwide. Yet there was one atrocity that could not be proven
Dec 21, 2009

  • Suppressed images don't show rape, official says

    The Pentagon says no sexual abuse, no Abu Ghraib photos among those held back in ACLU suit.
    By Mark Benjamin June 2, 2009

  • Administration gets more time for abuse photos appeal

    The government will have an additional 30 days to prepare for a fight over releasing the pictures
    By Alex Koppelman June 1, 2009

  • 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.
    By Marcy Wheeler May 18, 2009

  • Gitmo general told Iraq WMD search team to torture

    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

  • A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture

    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

  • The reluctant enablers of torture

    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

  • Rumsfeld: Architect of torture

    The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib.
    By Mike Madden April 22, 2009

  • 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.
    By Mark Benjamin December 1, 2008

  • Beware Bush's preemptive strike on torture

    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

  • 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.
    By Mark Benjamin June 18, 2008

  • Iraqi sues U.S. military contractors

    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

  • Interrogating Abu Ghraib

    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

  • Uncovering the truth about CIA torture tapes

    Congress must remedy its abysmal record of investigating the Bush administration on prisoner abuse and torture.
    By Anthony D. Romero February 15, 2008

  • Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"

    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

  • America's trinity of terrorism

    The network of U.S.-sponsored terrorism now on global display relies on death squads, disappearances and torture.
    By Greg Grandin December 14, 2007

  • The agonizing truth about CIA renditions

    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

  • We must ban secretive U.S. torture

    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

  • The dark truth about Blackwater

    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

  • Dan Rather stands by his story

    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

  • The dismal legacy of Bush's top yes man

    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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