Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 18, 2008. In a series of quiet but sweeping measures, the Bush Administration is codifying the government's capacity to spy on its citizens.
Basil Adas, Gulf News. August 15, 2008. The U.S. has refused to provide any information about the prisoners or abide by an amnesty law issued by the Iraqi government.
Stephen Soldz, Boston Globe. August 12, 2008. Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 5, 2008. "Maybe all these sources are just making stuff up. Maybe. But that's a helluva similar pattern of allegations, isn't it?"
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 28, 2008. Johnson considers just how incompetent and unscrupulous a thoroughly privatized intelligence 'community' has turned out to be.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. July 18, 2008. The U.S. is currently spending between $55 and $66 billion a year on intelligence. So why can't we find Osama bin Laden?
Eric Umansky, ProPublica. July 17, 2008. The investigative reporter who connected the dots on detention, rendition and torture, discusses her new book, The Dark Side.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 16, 2008. A closer look at the first Guantánamo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. June 27, 2008. A muscular group of religious, military and former government officials has created an anti-torture declaration. The names may surprise you.
Clive Stafford Smith, Independent UK. May 30, 2008. As the Pentagon prepares to prosecute Binyam Mohamed in a lawless military tribunal, his own government is MIA.
Middle East OnlineMay 16, 2008. Seven Italians, including the former head of military intelligence General Nicolo Pollari, are also on trial in the case.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. April 7, 2008. Foreign military bases have served as launch pads for American military adventures. Increasingly, they are also being used as CIA 'black sites'.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, Invictus. March 11, 2008. Bush's anti-torture veto -- and his subsequent radio address -- follow a long tradition of obfuscation and doublespeak.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, Ph.D., Invictus. March 6, 2008. Jeffrey Kaye left the APA over its complicity in torture by the U.S. government. This is his letter of resignation.