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Bush's top general quashed torture dissent
New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal interrogation tactics.
By Mark Benjamin Jun 30, 2008
The war on teen terror
The Bush administration's treatment of juvenile prisoners shipped to Guantánamo Bay defies logic as well as international law.
By Jo Becker Jun 24, 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 Jun 18, 2008
Election 2008: Declare a forfeit
To avoid humiliating a once-great party and subjecting America to more painful glimpses of McCain's ideas and teeth, the mercy rule must be invoked now.
By Gary Kamiya Jun 17, 2008
In a blow to Bush, the Supreme Court restores habeas corpus
The text of the court's historic decision to strike down part of the Military Commissions Act and affirm the right of Guantánamo prisoners to challenge their detention.
Jun 12, 2008
The insanity inside Guantánamo
A new report reveals that a number of prisoners -- even some long ago cleared to leave -- are spiraling into hallucinations, despair and suicide.
By Jennifer Daskal and Stacy Sullivan Jun 10, 2008
Arraigning the 9/11 suspects, Guantánamo-style
Hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others here were marred by intimidation, partial censorship and a ruling that left justice in doubt.
By Joanne Mariner Jun 7, 2008
"It's an inquisition, not a trial"
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, puts on quite a show at his arraignment in Guantánamo.
Vincent Rossmeier Jun 5, 2008
We are all appeasers now
The GOP and establishment media are attacking Barack Obama for being willing to talk to "terrorists" -- but many parties, including Israel, are doing just that.
By Gary Kamiya Jun 3, 2008
Looking for payoff in Iraq
Winning "hearts and minds" is in some sense like a seduction. But what happens if American largesse here runs out?
By Arnon Grunberg Jun 3, 2008
Former high-ranking Bush officials enjoy war profits
Now working inside America's "shadow" spy industry, George Tenet, Richard Armitage, Cofer Black and others are cashing in big on Iraq and the war on terror.
By Tim Shorrock May 29, 2008
Still silenced in Guantánamo
After years spent here, one prisoner pins his hope on a single phone call from the outside world -- if it ever comes.
By Carol Chodroff May 29, 2008
Al-Qaida's female warrior
Malika El Aroud represents women's growing, although restricted, presence in Islamic extremism.
Tracy Clark-Flory May 29, 2008
The forgotten kid of Guantánamo
A teenager captured in Afghanistan and shipped to the U.S. prison remained unknown to the world for five years. Now he's being tried as an adult.
By Stacy Sullivan May 27, 2008
Inside the Guantánamo terror trials
A bruised-up detainee rejects the proceedings, and his lawyer discovers that military officials withheld records about his client's mental health.
By Carol Chodroff May 24, 2008
Lawless in Guantánamo
Even an Air Force colonel who once prosecuted detainees here is condemning military commissions at the prison as politicized and unjust.
By Jennifer Daskal May 2, 2008
So long, Canada
Strict new border policies are turning Canada into a foreign country. Is this any way to treat our neighbors?
By Edward McClelland May 1, 2008
How Iraq spawned wider terrorist chaos
As experts long warned, Islamic militants steeped in urban warfare against U.S. troops in Iraq have expanded their violent campaign beyond Iraq's borders.
By James Martin Apr 14, 2008
"We'll make you see death"
A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan -- smuggled from prison on tiny paper -- exposes U.S. complicity in torture.
By Joanne Mariner Apr 10, 2008
Terror and loathing
Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates.
By Laura Miller Apr 2, 2008
Americans in Green Zone under siege
Fighting between militants and the Iraqi government has threatened what was once the best-secured district in Baghdad.
By Dieter Bednarz Mar 28, 2008
Of war and cancer
Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
By Gary Kamiya Mar 18, 2008
A sickening truth at Guantánamo
A gravely ill detainee I represent, never charged with a crime, has been neglected by military doctors. Will he be the next to die inside the notorious prison?
By H. Candace Gorman Mar 14, 2008
It's 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?
Not John McCain, say some military leaders: "I think his knee-jerk response factor is a little scary."
By Mark Benjamin Mar 6, 2008
Osama bin Laden's "Second Life"
In virtual worlds, does it take two terrorists to tango? And how much should we worry about those secret stockpiles of cartoon weapons?
By Juan Cole Feb 25, 2008
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