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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 Dec 8, 2007
Feeding off the Pentagon: How did a former Bush official win an $800 million Department of Defense contract for his healthcare firm? That's what government watchdogs want to know.; By Mark Benjamin Dec 4, 2007
Romney's man on waterboarding: He says he'd look to Blackwater's Cofer Black for advice.; Mark Benjamin Nov 29, 2007
Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?: Bush's nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the second to come from a private company that rakes in millions from VA contracts.; By Mark Benjamin Nov 20, 2007
Bush's careless choice for Iraq vets: The president's nominee to head Veterans Affairs oversaw a military healthcare crisis long before the Walter Reed scandal.; By Mark Benjamin Nov 5, 2007
What Hillary won't say about torture: Sen. Clinton gives Salon her most detailed answers yet on torture -- but still leaves some wiggle room.; By Mark Benjamin Nov 2, 2007
Will Bill's dough make trouble for Hillary?: Some big donors to the former president's philanthropy also donate to Hillary's campaign. His private fundraising could be costly to a next Clinton White House.; By Mark Benjamin Oct 11, 2007
Does a bigger Army mean another Iraq?: Every major presidential candidate, including the Democratic front-runners, wants a much bigger Army. But that means an Army expressly designed to fight another war like this one.; By Mark Benjamin Sep 27, 2007
Guns, not roses, for Iraq: The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war?; By Mark Benjamin Sep 18, 2007
What happens to private contractors who kill Iraqis? Maybe nothing: Blackwater USA employees are accused of killing several civilians, but there might not be anyone with the authority to prosecute them.; By Alex Koppelman and Mark Benjamin Sep 18, 2007
Bush's new friends: The Sunnis: As plans to stabilize Iraqi politics go nowhere fast, experts warn that the latest U.S. tactics could lead to greater civil war.; By Mark Benjamin Sep 5, 2007
Did Chertoff lie to Congress about Guantánamo?: He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were "plain vanilla," but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture.; By Mark Benjamin Aug 28, 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 Aug 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 Aug 15, 2007
When is an accidental civilian death not an accident?: When the Air Force asks permission first. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has rules for killing civilians. But do the rules actually save lives?; By Mark Benjamin Jul 30, 2007
Bush signs executive order on interrogation practices: Will the new order allow the CIA to keep torturing high-value detainees?; Mark Benjamin Jul 20, 2007
The CIA's torture teachers: Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.; By Mark Benjamin Jun 21, 2007
The CIA's favorite form of torture: If the Bush administration forces the CIA to drop "tough" interrogation techniques like waterboarding, the agency will probably fall back on a brutal method that leaves no physical marks.; By Mark Benjamin Jun 7, 2007
A Senate panel rejects Bush's secret interrogations: As administration lawyers scramble to find a new legal underpinning for "tough" interrogation techniques, the Senate Intelligence Committee slams a once-secret CIA program and its methods.; By Mark Benjamin Jun 1, 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
"All roads lead to the White House": As Alberto Gonzales returns to Capitol Hill to testify, the whodunit at the heart of the U.S. attorneys scandal remains.; By Mark Benjamin and Walter Shapiro May 10, 2007
The Pentagon's chronic neglect of Iraq vets: Military officials knew long ago about the failure to take care of America's war wounded at the beleaguered Walter Reed hospital.; By Mark Benjamin Apr 25, 2007
New Walter Reed questions: Democratic senators ask why the government failed to respond to 2004 warning about hospital conditions.; By Mark Benjamin Apr 13, 2007
VA report found Walter Reed problems in 2004: A task force learned nearly three years ago that wounded vets were unhappy with the hospital. So why does Bush want to promote the task force co-chair?; By Mark Benjamin Apr 11, 2007
Injured troops shipped back into battle: Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.; By Mark Benjamin Apr 9, 2007

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