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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT "Handgun and power drill" By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/08/25/cia_ig_report/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/08/25/cia_ig_report/index.html?source=rss Selected pages from the CIA inspector general's report on interrogation during the war on terror "The time for bickering is over" Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/09/09/obama_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/09/09/obama_speech/index.html?source=rss The full text of President Obama's September 9 speech to a joint session of Congress on healthcare reform "They felt naked without a weapon" By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/16/fort_carson_report/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/16/fort_carson_report/index.html?source=rss Read excerpts from the Army report that shows a link between combat stress and murder The torture of a 17-year-old in Iran By Mike Madden Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/24/iran_photos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/24/iran_photos/index.html?source=rss A teenager's story, with graphic photos, of abuse at the hands of Iran's religious paramilitaries, the Basij Von Brunn's letter to Jim Webb Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/webb_letter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/webb_letter/index.html?source=rss While in prison, alleged Holocaust Museum shooter sent Webb a long anti-Semitic missive seeking help with a pardon "One big, tall Caucasian American" By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/22/mass_graves/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/22/mass_graves/index.html?source=rss A detainee who survived a massacre of Taliban prisoners is among those who claim there were American witnesses A grave record from Arlington By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/20/arlington_document/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/20/arlington_document/index.html?source=rss The document saying of Grave 449, "CASKET IN GRAVE REMAINS UNKNOWN" James W. Von Brunn's anti-Semitic screed By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html?source=rss The alleged Holocaust Museum shooter published a book called "Kill the Best Gentiles." Read selections here. Sotomayor, the non-activist judge By Vincent Rossmeier Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/08/sotomayor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/08/sotomayor/index.html?source=rss An ACLU report on Sotomayor's judicial record concludes that her political beliefs are difficult to characterize. "This cycle of suspicion and discord must end" Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/04/obama_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/04/obama_speech/index.html?source=rss The full text of President Obama's speech at Cairo University U.N. calls U.S. human rights record "deplorable" By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/29/un_report/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/29/un_report/index.html?source=rss A new report suggests the U.S. may have committed war crimes -- and endorses the formation of a truth commission. "As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester" Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/21/gitmo_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/21/gitmo_speech/index.html?source=rss President Obama gives a speech on Guantanamo Bay, torture and national security Army suicides soar past 2008's pace By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/12/ocpa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/12/ocpa/index.html?source=rss The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to Salon shows soldiers committing suicide at a record-setting pace. Is combat stress the reason? Two groups call for probe following Salon exposé By Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/05/vets/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/05/vets/index.html?source=rss A veterans organization and a government watchdog group have asked the House Armed Services Committee to investigate a veterans healthcare scandal exposed by Salon. The Army investigates itself again By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/23/army_medical/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/23/army_medical/index.html?source=rss Why is the Army sending sick troops back into combat? You won't learn the answer from a new internal report. "Wolfowitz said GTMO should use more aggressive interrogation techniques" Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/22/torture/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/22/torture/index.html?source=rss A Senate report describes how the Bush administration began its torture program -- and may have pushed for the use of torture to produce evidence linking al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. "This report does not find pressure to change clinical diagnoses" Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/09/each/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/09/each/index.html?source=rss A summary of an Army investigation says some soldiers with PTSD may not get the diagnoses they deserve -- but nobody in the Army did anything wrong. "There are jobs that cannot be saved" Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/30/obama_auto/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/30/obama_auto/index.html?source=rss Restructuring plans submitted by G.M. and Chrysler are unsatisfactory, says President Obama. Obama's new way forward in Pakistan and Afghanistan Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/27/white_paper/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/27/white_paper/index.html?source=rss An administration white paper argues that the core goal of the U.S. must be to uproot al-Qaida from its safe havens in Pakistan. Feingold on AIG: "The best and the brightest"? Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/16/feingold_aig/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/16/feingold_aig/index.html?source=rss In a letter to Tim Geithner, the senator calls for legal action to recover $165 million that went to bonuses. Bush's own set of laws By Vincent Rossmeier Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/03/bushmemos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/03/03/bushmemos/index.html?source=rss Secret memos from the former administration reveal the breadth of the Bush team's claims of executive branch power. Did Bush's attorney general hide internal dissent over torture? By Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/18/opr/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/18/opr/index.html?source=rss In a letter to the Department of Justice, Sens. Durbin and Whitehouse request an update on the status of the Office of Professional Responsibility's report on torture. "He hears sounds which seem to be voices" By Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/13/coming_home_four_marko/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/13/coming_home_four_marko/index.html?source=rss The Army knew Cpl. Robert Marko might have psychological problems, but sent him to Iraq anyway. He is now awaiting trial for murder in Colorado. "Who I'd like to meet: Al Capone, Hitler" By Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/13/coming_home_four/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/13/coming_home_four/index.html?source=rss On his MySpace page, Kenneth Eastridge expressed excitement to be leaving "the gay ass Army." Now he is in prison for involvement in a murder. "I will break your f---ing face" By Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/12/coming_home_three/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/12/coming_home_three/index.html?source=rss A written statement from John Needham, who suffers from PTSD, describing an encounter with an officer at Fort Carson.