Torture

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  • The growing American gulag

    A new report says the number of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq has doubled since October -- many of them held in nothing more than "trailers surrounded by barbed wire."
    By Mark Follman March 30, 2005

  • "The U.S. needs to come clean"

    There's more evidence corroborating the use of secret U.S. flights to the Middle East, where detainees in the war on terrorism say they were tortured.
    By Mark Follman March 30, 2005

  • Playing ball with the CIA

    Buy yourself a Gulfstream IV jet and maybe you, too, could be a team player in the Bush administration's war on terror.
    By Mark Follman March 22, 2005

  • Terrorists out on "good behavior"

    France and Britain are letting some very scary people out of jail -- is the Bush-led war on terrorism partly to blame?
    By Mark Follman March 14, 2005

  • A lawyerly defense for outsourcing torture

    Alberto Gonzales promised he'd change his ways when he became attorney general. He hasn't.
    By Tim Grieve March 8, 2005

  • Getting on the good side of history

    Is it time to declare the bright dawn of democracy in the Middle East?
    By Mark Follman March 4, 2005

  • Rumsfeld's legal troubles

    The Defense Secretary is sued for his part in promoting torture abroad.
    By Julia Scott March 2, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Why have conservatives been silent about new evidence that the Bush administration sanctioned torture? Victor Davis Hanson and Jonah Goldberg tell us.
    by Mark Follman February 28, 2005

  • More for the torture file

    A federal judge acknowledges "circumstantial evidence" of U.S. complicity in torture conducted by foreign allies in the war against terrorism.
    By Mark Follman February 23, 2005

  • A U.S. fleet for outsourcing torture?

    More evidence of aircraft used in the Bush administration's secretive program for rendering terrorist suspects to foreign countries.
    By Mark Follman February 22, 2005

  • The torturous road to justice

    Is the U.S. Congress finally stirring from slumber over the Bush administration's use of extraordinary rendition?
    By Mark Follman February 14, 2005

  • America's extraordinary tolerance for torture

    By now shouldn't liberals and conservatives alike be aghast over the Bush administration's secret, systematic policy of outsourcing torture?
    By Mark Follman February 11, 2005

  • Sinking to our enemies' level

    By declaring that the war on terror has made the Geneva Convention obsolete, the Bush administration has abdicated its claim to represent universal -- or even Christian -- moral values.
    By Michael Kessler January 18, 2005

  • The torturer general

    Alberto Gonzales' arguments in defense of humanity's vilest practice are identical to those used by the generals who fought Argentina's dirty war. It staggers belief that this man is to hold our highest legal post.
    By Marguerite Feitlowitz January 6, 2005

  • 2004: The political events that shook the world

    Table Talkers weigh in on gay marriage, war and the politics of torture.
    December 30, 2004

  • The year of the sucker punch

    Bush's reelection was a body blow to liberals, but right-wingers hit below the belt from the start. From O'Reilly to Limbaugh to Lott, a look at 2004's lowlights from the right.
    By Mark Follman December 30, 2004

  • Whitewashing torture?

    A veteran sergeant who told his commanding officers that he witnessed his colleagues torturing Iraqi detainees was strapped to a gurney and flown out of Iraq -- even though there was nothing wrong with him.
    By David DeBatto December 8, 2004

  • Image fade

    As the administration scrambles to control the political damage from Iraq, a new poll shows that Americans view Kerry as more trustworthy than Bush.
    By Sidney Blumenthal June 24, 2004

  • Of human bondage

    The kinds of torture used at Abu Ghraib stem from techniques common to colonial imperialists, Stalin's secret police and the Gestapo.
    By Darius Rejali June 18, 2004

  • Torture's dark allure

    It gives its practitioners a drug-like rush. But it leaves a legacy of destruction that takes generations to undo.
    By Darius Rejali June 18, 2004

  • "A temporary coup"

    Author Thomas Powers says the White House's corruption of intelligence has caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in modern U.S. history -- and sparked a civil war with the nation's intel agencies.
    By Mark Follman June 14, 2004

  • Operation Enduring Fog

    The White House strategy for dealing with the Abu Ghraib scandal: Stall, control, attack, deny and scare.
    By Dennis Jett June 8, 2004

  • American torture, American porn

    Abu Ghraib and "The Passion of the Christ" are connected in a dark basement of the American psyche.
    By Alessandro Camon June 7, 2004

  • The military's hazing hell

    Carol Burke, author of "Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High and Tight," talks to Salon about the military's frat-boy culture, how torture and initiation rites are used to transform civilians into soldiers -- and how Abu Ghraib is just a drop in the bucket.
    By Suzy Hansen June 4, 2004

  • Documenting torture

    A farmer and peace activist from the American heartland talks about his frontline battle against human rights abuses in Iraq -- long before the world learned of Abu Ghraib.
    By Jeff Horwitz May 28, 2004
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