• 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

  • Architecture of detention

    Renderings of cells where a prisoner was held as part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program.
    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

  • Salon Book Awards 2007

    From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.
    By Laura Miller December 12, 2007

  • Quote of the Day

    Bush says it will be "interesting to know what the true facts are."
    By Tim Grieve December 11, 2007

  • Follow the bouncing tapes

    First it was a CIA decision. Then Harriet Miers knew. Now more lawyers were involved, and a source says the White House didn't say, "Hell, no."
    By Tim Grieve December 11, 2007

  • For the CIA's eyes only

    Was the agency's destruction of two video recordings of harsh interrogations by the CIA a coverup?
    By Mark Benjamin December 8, 2007

  • Is the CIA lying about destroyed tapes?

    The agency says it told Congress about the tapes and that the 9/11 Commission never asked. Really?
    By Tim Grieve December 7, 2007

  • An Iran bombshell for Bush

    The White House knew months ago about Iran's stalled nuclear program. But Bush and Cheney have kept up the war rhetoric.
    By Mark Follman December 5, 2007

  • Torture may have led to Pearl murder suspect's death

    Saud Memon was reportedly a shell of a man after being detained by the CIA and Pakistani authorities.
    By Alex Koppelman November 12, 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

  • The man who sold the war

    "Curveball" author Bob Drogin talks about the Iraqi defector responsible for much of the CIA's bogus prewar intelligence about Iraqi WMD.
    By Alex Koppelman October 16, 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 Bush administration's ties to Blackwater

    Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr.
    By Ben Van Heuvelen October 2, 2007

  • Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

    Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 6, 2007

  • Will psychologists still abet torture?

    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

  • Psychologists to CIA: We condemn torture

    In a rebuke of President Bush, the American Psychological Association has resolved to condemn brutal CIA and military interrogations.
    By Mark Benjamin August 15, 2007

  • America under surveillance

    Granted new power to spy inside the U.S., the Bush administration may be doing more than eavesdropping on phone calls -- it could be watching suspects' every move.
    By Tim Shorrock August 9, 2007

  • 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

  • Bush signs executive order on interrogation practices

    Will the new order allow the CIA to keep torturing high-value detainees?
    By Mark Benjamin July 20, 2007

  • A "safe haven" for al-Qaida in Pakistan

    A conversation with Buzzy Krongard, the executive director of the CIA from 2001 to 2004, about the new National Intelligence Estimate and al-Qaida's resurgence in Pakistan.
    By Alex Koppelman July 19, 2007

  • Cooking the intelligence, again

    The latest government estimate of the terrorist threat is just a rehash of the same old script, produced under pressure to support the president's efforts to sell the Iraq war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 19, 2007

  • Bush and Cheney's tortured secrecy

    Can the White House win a constitutional showdown with Congress over executive privilege after shredding the nation's trust?
    By David Cole July 12, 2007

  • Bush and Cheney walk, too

    Even as the president confesses that Scooter Libby engaged in a cover-up -- after all, that was the verdict -- he completes the ultimate obstruction of justice in the Plame affair.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 3, 2007

  • What George Tenet really knew about Iraq

    Unraveling the former CIA chief's cover story about bogus intelligence -- and the grand scheme that launched the war.
    By Thomas Powers July 2, 2007
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