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.
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 11:07 AM UTC 57All Salon CIA, Terrorism, Torture, Abu Ghraib
Why the White House should turn over secret legal memos, and why I'm sponsoring legislation to end brutal interrogations.
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 11:07 AM UTC 57Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win wars like that in Iraq.
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007 11:08 AM UTC 72His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
Thursday, Sep 27, 2007 11:29 AM UTC 345Alberto Gonzales' successor will face a heckuva job rectifying the damage the attorney general did to American justice.
Tuesday, Aug 28, 2007 11:33 AM UTC 23At their annual convention, psychologists officially condemned some brutal interrogation techniques, but critics decry a resolution they say isn't stringent enough.
Tuesday, Aug 21, 2007 11:45 AM UTC 18Two charges are dropped against the only officer prosecuted for abuse; an investigator says he failed to read him his rights.
Monday, Aug 20, 2007 6:34 PM UTC 13The president has issued an executive order to stop the CIA from using torture, but the ban is unenforceable.
Monday, Jul 23, 2007 11:21 AM UTCMaj. Gen. Paul Taguba says he thought, naively, that Pentagon officials wanted to know the truth.
Monday, Jun 18, 2007 1:19 PM UTC 10The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability.
Friday, Jun 1, 2007 11:33 AM UTC 19New details confirm a CIA prisoner disappeared in U.S. custody for months, renewing suspicions the agency could be violating the law and using torture.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:03 PM UTC 13With a couple of keystrokes, you too can read the hidden history of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's late, unlamented occupation government in Iraq.
Friday, May 18, 2007 11:22 AM UTC 34British author Alistair Horne explains what Pinochet, Sharon and Bush have all taken from his work, why peace means getting rid of the priests, and why Iraq is the wrong war in the wrong place.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:21 AM UTC 47A movie about the Bush-Cheney policy of torture that will make you shake with rage. Plus: Alec Baldwin's unintended laugh lines.
Monday, Apr 30, 2007 1:52 PM UTC 75Why the killing of civilians by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq could have profound strategic consequences.
Thursday, Apr 26, 2007 11:31 AM UTC 26To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
Thursday, Apr 26, 2007 11:07 AM UTC 65The U.S. attorney general's willingness to serve as the president's ultimate yes man makes him unqualified for the office.
Monday, Mar 12, 2007 11:05 AM UTC 34In HBO's "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" the "bad apples" express remorse, but claim that they were scapegoats.
Thursday, Feb 22, 2007 12:00 PM UTC 22The Pentagon figures out that it "wouldn't be prudent" to send a convicted Abu Ghraib dog handler back for another tour in Iraq.
Friday, Nov 3, 2006 5:55 PM UTCHis unit will train Iraqi police.
Friday, Nov 3, 2006 2:13 PM UTCFresh off of downplaying Foleygate, Christopher Shays declares what happened at Abu Ghraib "not torture."
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