Investigations into torture can only do so much. The U.S. needs laws that more clearly forbid brutality
By Juan Cole Aug 25, 2009
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The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
By Glenn Greenwald
November 5, 2009
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Former top officials want the president to call off an inquiry into detainee abuse
By Alex Koppelman
September 18, 2009
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Selected pages from the CIA inspector general's report on interrogation during the war on terror
By Mark Benjamin
August 25, 2009
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Cheney's secret assassination program may be terminated, but the U.S. is already carrying out "targeted killings"
By Mark Benjamin
July 17, 2009
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DOJ officials rush to assure everyone that Holder's investigation is severely limited; even that's not enough.
By Glenn Greenwald
September 19, 2009
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The former attorney general now says he opposes the investigation, and claims he was taken out of context
By Alex Koppelman
September 3, 2009
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The document reportedly contained information about deaths and waterboarding that was not declassified
By Alex Koppelman
August 25, 2009
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Conservative spin: How an investigation into alleged CIA crimes will somehow make the country less safe
By Vincent Rossmeier
August 25, 2009
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The Report highlights how depraved were the interrogation practices - and how unjust it is to immunize U.S. leaders
By Glenn Greenwald
August 24, 2009
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A much-anticipated release ends up highly redacted and contains hardly any new information
By Alex Koppelman
August 24, 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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A judge reprimands several Agency officials for not being fully honest with him
By Tim Bella
July 21, 2009
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Reports suggest plot was to assassinate al-Qaida leaders -- but never got off the ground. Will an investigation?
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 13, 2009
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The report, which could contradict former Vice President Cheney's claims, was due out Friday
By Alex Koppelman
June 19, 2009
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Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
By Alfred W. McCoy
June 11, 2009
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Documents obtained by the ACLU seem to show that medical personnel monitored the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah
By Sheri Fink
May 28, 2009
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Democrats kill Republican measure to investigate House Speaker's allegations about the CIA
By Ben Travers
May 21, 2009
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What? CIA operatives concealed the truth about torture from a San Francisco liberal? No!
By Gene Lyons
May 21, 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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An FBI agent testifies that an al-Qaida prisoner provided useful intelligence until the CIA got rough -- and casts doubt on Bush's statements about the effectiveness of harsh interrogations.
By Mark Benjamin
May 14, 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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It has long been clear that the CIA used the Szymany military airbase in Poland for extraordinary renditions. Now there is new evidence of a secret torture prison nearby.
By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg
April 28, 2009
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Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?
By John Feffer
April 24, 2009
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Former CIA heads ask Obama to stop investigation
"Handgun and power drill"
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Cheney's secret CIA plan
The CIA's secret history of psychological torture
Do CIA cables show doctors monitoring torture?
Playing the Pelosi card
The 13 people who made torture possible
Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering
A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture
The reluctant enablers of torture
New evidence of a secret torture prison
Our misguided fight against Somali pirates
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