by Marjorie Cohn From marjoriecohn.com | Original Article Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and…
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5/21/09 Neocon Group Calls for Military Strikes on Media
by Jeremy Scahill from AntiWar.com | Original Article In the era of embedded media, independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world. Without those un-embedded journalists willing to…
5/18/09 Obama’s Animal House
by James Petras from Information Clearing House | Original Article “The Deltas are psychos. You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force”, a US Army colonel from Fort…
5-19-09 Who the Hell is Stanley McChrystal?
By Tim Heffernan From Esquire | Original Article Barely a week ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a major change in the United States’s prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. General David…
CCR Guantanamo Attorneys Comment After Obama 5/21 Speech
From CommonDreams.org | Original Article NEW YORK – May 21 – Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner and Managing Attorney for CCR’s Guantanamo project Shayana Kadidal responded with disappointment to President…
How Torture Trapped Colin Powell
by Ray McGovern, May 18, 2009 From ConsortiumNews.com | Original Article Four days before trying to sell the invasion of Iraq to the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell was ready…
Cheney’s Role Deepens
By Robert Windrem, May 21, 2009 From The Daily Beast | Original Article Former NBC News investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the vice president’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who…
The 13 People Who Made Torture Possible
Published on Monday, May 18, 2009 by Salon.com The Bush administration’s Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it….
Funding for Guantanamo Bay Closure Dropped from Budget
By Mark Impomeni, 5/4/09 From Politics Daily | Original Article Republicans appear to have secured a major victory over the Obama Administration and the Democratic leadership of Congress on the president’s request…
UN Rights Chief Urges Obama to Prosecute Torturers
By Stephanie Nebehay From Reuters | Original Article GENEVA, May 14 (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday welcomed the election of the United States to the top…
CIA Outsourced Development of Interrogation Plan
By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg From SpeigelOnLine | Original Article The torture practices used in interrogations of al-Qaida prisoners were not developed by government officials in Washington, but by private security…
John Yoo Gets a Column at the Philadelphia Inquirer
By Liliana Segura, May 12, 2009 From AlterNet | Original Article It was jarring enough (and more than a bit bizarre) to see the notorious John Yoo weigh in on the Obama…
The Guantanamo Labyrinth
Feature article from the Chicago Tribune magazine on Guantanamo prisoners and War Criminals Watch advisor, H. Candace Gorman. Click here to read.
Cheney on “Face the Nation” 5/10/09
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CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of “Enhanced Interrogations”
By Paul Kane From The Washington Post | Original ArticleIntelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh…