By Jason Leopold From Truthout | Original Article A federal court judge ordered the Justice DepartmentThursday to release portions of an interview transcriptbetween former Vice President Dick Cheney and thespecial prosecutor assigned…
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9-29-09 Berkeley agrees to UN rights treaties
By Carolyn Jones From SFGate | Original Article Berkeley became the first city in the United States,and possibly the world, to agree to international humanrights treaties on Tuesday night, after the CityCouncil…
9-28-09 Bush Torture Indictment
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article Following a joint blogosphere drafting effort, here’s a revised draft indictment of Bush for torture. As before, this does not attempt to include…
9-15-09 My Flower to Bush, the Occupier: The Story of My Shoe
By Mutadhar al-Zaidi From Counterpunch | Original Article Mutadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release. In the name of God, the…
9-10-09 The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees
By Peter Jan Honigsberg From The Huffington Post | Original Article “The first day I was at Guantanamo, they put me in a little cage. There was a toilet hole and I…
9-4-09 Ninth Circuit Court rules on John Ashcroft
By Kenneth J. Thiesen From FireJohnYoo.org | Original Article Bush Regime Attorney General can be held personally responsible for misuse of material witness law In an important development, a federal court has ruled…
8-31-09 Law & Disorder Audio Discussion on OIG CIA Report
Attorney General Eric Holder appointed special Justice Department prosecutor John Durham to conduct a preliminary investigation into whether federal laws were violated in connection with the interrogation of certain detainees in U.S….
8-28-09 Bush Tortured
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article It seems almost trivial to accuse someone who launched an illegal war that has killed over a million people of torture. But if we…
8-26-09 Glenn Greenwald on CIA Interrogation Probe, Obama and Why the Media Failed on Covering Torture
From DemocracyNow.org | Original Article (See original article for video version). ANJALI KAMAT: We turn now to the issue of torture. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed veteran federal prosecutor John…
8-25-09 Seven Points on the CIA Report
By Scott Horton From Harper’s Magazine | Original Article You can catch my review of the CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s report on BBC’s “The World” or on MSNBC’s Live with Carlos…
8-24-09 First Reactions to Torture Report from CCR Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal
From Center for Constitutional Rights | Original Article Today saw the long awaited release of a report by the CIA’s Office of Inspector General (the agency’s internal watchdog) investigating the use of…
8-24-09 ACLU on Release of CIA Torture Report
From ACLU | Original ArticleRelease Of CIA Torture Report Underscores Need For Full Investigation, Says ACLU NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a preliminary…
8-24-09 Torture and Academic Freedom
Click here to read this debate in The New York Times as to whether John Yoo should be fired.
8-22-09 Bombshell report on CIA interrogations is leaked
By Peter Beaumont From guardian.co.uk | Original Article CIA interrogators threatened a captured al-Qaida leader with a power drill and a pistol in what was described as a mock execution, according to…
8-20-09 Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
By Jeremy Scahill From The Nation | Original Article In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early…