BBC
Posted Thursday March 11, 2010 9:41 PM | Torture | 156
Mark Benjamin, Salon
Posted Tuesday March 9, 2010 6:08 AM | Torture | 282
ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE, New York Times
Posted Saturday February 20, 2010 5:39 AM | Torture | 335
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Monday February 15, 2010 6:43 AM | Torture | 430
BBC
Posted Friday February 5, 2010 3:22 PM | War | 457
JOAN WALSH, Salon
Posted Thursday January 7, 2010 7:39 PM | Government | 521
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Monday January 4, 2010 6:52 AM | Torture | 826
PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
Posted Monday December 28, 2009 6:43 AM | Economy | 296
MAUREEN DOWD, New York Times
Posted Sunday December 20, 2009 7:20 AM | Terrorism | 404
Kim Zetter, Wired
Posted Monday December 14, 2009 9:40 PM | Government | 207
JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI, New York Times
Posted Friday December 11, 2009 6:50 AM | War | 394
CHARLIE SAVAGE, New York Times
Posted Thursday December 3, 2009 6:44 AM | Civil Rights | 480
Haroon Siddique, Guardian
Posted Monday November 30, 2009 9:27 PM | War | 586
Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian
Posted Sunday November 29, 2009 2:14 PM | War | 778
SCOTT SHANE, New York Times
Posted Saturday November 28, 2009 7:15 PM | Terrorism | 472
Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian
Posted Wednesday November 25, 2009 7:25 AM | Iraq | 572
ROBERT WRIGHT, New York Times
Posted Saturday November 21, 2009 10:24 PM | Terrorism | 669
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Wednesday November 11, 2009 6:57 AM | Torture | 841
GENE LYONS, Salon
Posted Wednesday November 11, 2009 9:45 PM | Bush | 836
SCOTT SHANE, New York Times
Posted Tuesday November 10, 2009 10:27 PM | Torture | 908
New York Times
Posted Wednesday November 4, 2009 7:57 PM | Torture | 404
PETE YOST, Salon
Posted Monday November 2, 2009 10:07 PM | Cheney | 975
SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE, New York Times
Posted Saturday October 31, 2009 6:34 PM | Torture | 1,004
DAVID JOHNSTON, New York Times
Posted Saturday October 31, 2009 6:50 AM | Cheney | 964
Christopher Beam, Slate
DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS, New York Times
Posted Wednesday October 7, 2009 4:01 PM | Bush | 1,129
ROSS DOUTHAT, New York Times
Posted Monday September 21, 2009 6:47 AM | Bush | 1,723
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Wednesday September 16, 2009 6:27 AM | Economy | 1,629
ALI H. SOUFAN, New York Times
Posted Sunday September 6, 2009 8:09 AM | Torture | 1,683
BBC
Posted Saturday September 5, 2009 7:11 AM | Liberty | 1,517
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Thursday September 3, 2009 4:37 PM | Torture | 1,634
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Thursday August 13, 2009 6:51 AM | Government | 2,074
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Wednesday August 5, 2009 11:17 AM | Justice | 2,102
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Thursday July 30, 2009 7:24 AM | Liberty | 2,181
Suzanne Goldenberg and Damian Carrington, Guardian
Posted Sunday July 26, 2009 7:32 AM | Environment | 1,274
Ryan Singel, Wired
Posted Friday July 10, 2009 5:42 PM | Liberty | 1,359
Dan Froomkin, Washington Post
Posted Friday June 26, 2009 2:13 PM | Bush | 1,195
Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers
Posted Thursday June 4, 2009 5:08 PM | Cheney | 2,019
Richard A. Clarke, Washington Post
Posted Saturday May 30, 2009 7:12 AM | 9/11 | 1,427
FRANK RICH, New York Times
Posted Sunday April 26, 2009 7:08 AM | Torture | 2,630
BRIAN KNOWLTON, New York Times
Posted Wednesday April 22, 2009 6:16 AM | Torture | 2,594
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Sunday April 19, 2009 6:31 AM | Torture | 2,734
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Posted Tuesday April 14, 2009 6:18 AM | Bush | 1,648
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Posted Friday April 10, 2009 6:46 AM | Torture | 1,789
A senior adviser to former US President George W Bush has defended tough interrogation techniques, saying their use helped prevent terrorist attacks.
In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as "Bush's brain", said he "was proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists". more. . .
In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as "Bush's brain", said he "was proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists". more. . .
Posted Thursday March 11, 2010 9:41 PM | Torture | 156
Mark Benjamin, Salon
Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a "a dunk in the water." But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial "enhanced interrogation" practice was far more brutal on detainees than Cheney's description sounds, and was administered with meticulous cruelty. more. . .
Posted Tuesday March 9, 2010 6:08 AM | Torture | 282
ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE, New York Times
WASHINGTON — After five years of often bitter internal debate, the Justice Department concluded in a report released Friday that the lawyers who gave legal justification to the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation tactics for terrorism suspects used flawed legal reasoning but were not guilty of professional misconduct. more. . .
Posted Saturday February 20, 2010 5:39 AM | Torture | 335
EDITORIAL, New York Times
There are times when governments fight to keep documents secret to protect sensitive intelligence or other vital national security interests. And there are times when they are just trying to cover up incompetence, misbehavior or lawbreaking.
Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture allegations of a former Guantánamo prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, it was clear that the second motive had been in play when both the Bush and the Obama administrations and some high-ranking British officials tried to prevent the disclosure. more. . .
Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture allegations of a former Guantánamo prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, it was clear that the second motive had been in play when both the Bush and the Obama administrations and some high-ranking British officials tried to prevent the disclosure. more. . .
Posted Monday February 15, 2010 6:43 AM | Torture | 430
BBC
The leader of Plaid Cymru's MPs has said he has a memo showing Tony Blair and George Bush struck a secret deal to invade Iraq a year before the 2003 war. more. . .
Posted Friday February 5, 2010 3:22 PM | War | 457
JOAN WALSH, Salon
I watched President Obama detail his administration's review of missed signals in the Christmas Day bomb attempt, and one thought was inescapable: Imagine President Bush doing the same thing after 9/11. I know, you can't. I couldn't either. In almost eight years, he never did. more. . .
Posted Thursday January 7, 2010 7:39 PM | Government | 521
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Bush administration officials came up with all kinds of ridiculously offensive rationalizations for torturing prisoners. It’s not torture if you don’t mean it to be. It’s not torture if you don’t nearly kill the victim. It’s not torture if the president says it’s not torture. more. . .
Posted Monday January 4, 2010 6:52 AM | Torture | 826
PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
Maybe we knew, at some unconscious, instinctive level, that it would be an era best forgotten. Whatever the reason, we got through the first decade of the new millennium without ever agreeing on what to call it. The aughts? The naughties? Whatever. (Yes, I know that strictly speaking the millennium didn’t begin until 2001. Do we really care?)
But from an economic point of view, I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true. more. . .
But from an economic point of view, I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true. more. . .
Posted Monday December 28, 2009 6:43 AM | Economy | 296
MAUREEN DOWD, New York Times
Flying over the waves of snow-covered mountains that make Afghanistan a natural fortress and a sinkhole for empires, it’s impossible not to think of Osama’s escaping from Tora Bora as one of the greatest bungled opportunities in history. more. . .
Posted Sunday December 20, 2009 7:20 AM | Terrorism | 404
Kim Zetter, Wired
White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press. more. . .
Posted Monday December 14, 2009 9:40 PM | Government | 207
JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI, New York Times
WASHINGTON — Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials. more. . .
Posted Friday December 11, 2009 6:50 AM | War | 394
CHARLIE SAVAGE, New York Times
WASHINGTON — When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look into accusations that officials in one state had illegally intimidated blacks during a voter-fraud investigation.
But division supervisors refused to “approve further contact with state authorities on this matter,” according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office auditing the activities of the division from 2001 to 2007. more. . .
But division supervisors refused to “approve further contact with state authorities on this matter,” according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office auditing the activities of the division from 2001 to 2007. more. . .
Posted Thursday December 3, 2009 6:44 AM | Civil Rights | 480
Haroon Siddique, Guardian
George Bush tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida in a conversation with Tony Blair three days after the 9/11 attacks, according to Blair's foreign policy adviser of the time. more. . .
Posted Monday November 30, 2009 9:27 PM | War | 586
Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian
Tony Blair was told by his government's most senior legal adviser that an invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein would be a serious breach of international law and the UN charter.
Lord Goldsmith, then attorney general, issued the warning in an uncompromising letter in July 2002, eight months before the invasion. It was becoming clear in government circles that Blair had had secret meetings with George Bush at which the US president was pressing Britain hard to join him in a war to change the regime in Baghdad. more. . .
Lord Goldsmith, then attorney general, issued the warning in an uncompromising letter in July 2002, eight months before the invasion. It was becoming clear in government circles that Blair had had secret meetings with George Bush at which the US president was pressing Britain hard to join him in a war to change the regime in Baghdad. more. . .
Posted Sunday November 29, 2009 2:14 PM | War | 778
SCOTT SHANE, New York Times
WASHINGTON — As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the escape of Osama bin Laden from American forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001. more. . .
Posted Saturday November 28, 2009 7:15 PM | Terrorism | 472
Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian
Tony Blair's government knew that prominent members of the Bush administration wanted to topple Saddam Hussein years before the invasion but initially distanced itself from the prospect knowing it would be unlawful, it was disclosed at the Iraq inquiry today. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 25, 2009 7:25 AM | Iraq | 572
ROBERT WRIGHT, New York Times
Princeton, N.J.
IN the case of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the Fort Hood massacre, the verdict has come in. The liberal news media have been found guilty — by the conservative news media — of coddling Major Hasan’s religion, Islam.
Liberals, according to the columnist Charles Krauthammer, wanted to medicalize Major Hasan’s crime — call it an act of insanity rather than of terrorism. They worked overtime, Mr. Krauthammer said on Fox News, to “avoid any implication that there was any connection between his Islamist beliefs ... and his actions.” The columnist Jonah Goldberg agrees. Admit it, he wrote in The Los Angeles Times, Major Hasan is “a Muslim fanatic, motivated by other Muslim fanatics.”
The good news for Mr. Krauthammer and Mr. Goldberg is that there is truth in their indictment. The bad news is that their case against the left-wing news media is the case against right-wing foreign policy. Seeing the Fort Hood shooting as an act of Islamist terrorism is the first step toward seeing how misguided a hawkish approach to fighting terrorism has been. more. . .
IN the case of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the Fort Hood massacre, the verdict has come in. The liberal news media have been found guilty — by the conservative news media — of coddling Major Hasan’s religion, Islam.
Liberals, according to the columnist Charles Krauthammer, wanted to medicalize Major Hasan’s crime — call it an act of insanity rather than of terrorism. They worked overtime, Mr. Krauthammer said on Fox News, to “avoid any implication that there was any connection between his Islamist beliefs ... and his actions.” The columnist Jonah Goldberg agrees. Admit it, he wrote in The Los Angeles Times, Major Hasan is “a Muslim fanatic, motivated by other Muslim fanatics.”
The good news for Mr. Krauthammer and Mr. Goldberg is that there is truth in their indictment. The bad news is that their case against the left-wing news media is the case against right-wing foreign policy. Seeing the Fort Hood shooting as an act of Islamist terrorism is the first step toward seeing how misguided a hawkish approach to fighting terrorism has been. more. . .
Posted Saturday November 21, 2009 10:24 PM | Terrorism | 669
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 11, 2009 6:57 AM | Torture | 841
GENE LYONS, Salon
For right-wing Republicans, the presidency of George W. Bush began as a dream come true. People calling themselves "conservatives" ran everything in Washington. Even before the GOP won both houses in 2002, Congress gave Bush everything he asked for. Republican apparatchiks controlled every agency from the Pentagon to the Treasury Department. Fox News savants expressed intermittent outrage that dissent was permitted. Rush Limbaugh's interviews of Dick Cheney sounded like a high-school girl gushing over the Jonas Brothers.
To rational minds, the resultant disaster could hardly have been more comprehensive: a lagging economy (the worst job creation since Hoover), yawning budget deficits (Bush doubled the national debt in eight years); two unfinished wars, costing thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars -- one completely unnecessary, the other so forgetfully prosecuted that Gen. Stanley McChrystal warns the United States and NATO could yet lose it. more. . .
To rational minds, the resultant disaster could hardly have been more comprehensive: a lagging economy (the worst job creation since Hoover), yawning budget deficits (Bush doubled the national debt in eight years); two unfinished wars, costing thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars -- one completely unnecessary, the other so forgetfully prosecuted that Gen. Stanley McChrystal warns the United States and NATO could yet lose it. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 11, 2009 9:45 PM | Bush | 836
SCOTT SHANE, New York Times
WASHINGTON — A New Jersey man who contends that he was detained and mistreated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia in 2007 with the approval of the United States filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against F.B.I. agents and other unidentified American officials who he says interrogated him and threatened him with execution. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 10, 2009 10:27 PM | Torture | 908
New York Times
MILAN (AP) -- An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 4, 2009 7:57 PM | Torture | 404
PETE YOST, Salon
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way. more. . .
Posted Monday November 2, 2009 10:07 PM | Cheney | 975
SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE, New York Times
F.B.I. agents who arrived at a secret C.I.A. jail overseas in September 2002 found prisoners “manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock,” and a C.I.A. official wrote a list of questions for interrogators including “How close is each technique to the ‘rack and screw,’ ” according to hundreds of pages of partly declassified documents released Friday by the Justice Department. more. . .
Posted Saturday October 31, 2009 6:34 PM | Torture | 1,004
DAVID JOHNSTON, New York Times
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney denied in an interview with a special prosecutor investigating the C.I.A. leak case that he had played any role in the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson as an intelligence officer, according to F.B.I. documents released Friday. more. . .
Posted Saturday October 31, 2009 6:50 AM | Cheney | 964
Christopher Beam, Slate
Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush described the amount of money he could make from post-retirement speaking engagements as "ridiculous." He could have also been describing the speaking engagements themselves. more. . .
DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS, New York Times
Gail Collins: David, this is our last discussion for a while — I’m off on a book tour for the rest of the month and you will be conversing with Bob Herbert.
David Brooks: And Gail, when you say you are going on book tour, does that mean you are going on tour for “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present?” Because if you are in fact going on book tour for “When Everything Changed” I feel reasonably confident that your publisher would like you to mention the fact that the title of the book is “When Everything Changed.” more. . .
David Brooks: And Gail, when you say you are going on book tour, does that mean you are going on tour for “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present?” Because if you are in fact going on book tour for “When Everything Changed” I feel reasonably confident that your publisher would like you to mention the fact that the title of the book is “When Everything Changed.” more. . .
Posted Wednesday October 7, 2009 4:01 PM | Bush | 1,129
ROSS DOUTHAT, New York Times
Last week, the Census Bureau released a statistical report on the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency. The numbers were brutal. On every indicator, Americans lost ground during the Bush era. The median income slumped. The poverty rate increased. The percentage of Americans without health insurance rose. more. . .
Posted Monday September 21, 2009 6:47 AM | Bush | 1,723
EDITORIAL, New York Times
It is sadly predictable that in a recession, the poor get poorer and the middle class loses ground. But even a downturn as deep and prolonged as this one cannot fully account for the desperate straits of so many Americans. more. . .
Posted Wednesday September 16, 2009 6:27 AM | Economy | 1,629
ALI H. SOUFAN, New York Times
PUBLIC bravado aside, the defenders of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques are fast running out of classified documents to hide behind. The three that were released recently by the C.I.A. — the 2004 report by the inspector general and two memos from 2004 and 2005 on intelligence gained from detainees — fail to show that the techniques stopped even a single imminent threat of terrorism. more. . .
Posted Sunday September 6, 2009 8:09 AM | Torture | 1,683
BBC
A former US attorney general can be sued by an American citizen held as a witness suspected of having information in a terrorism case, a court has ruled. more. . .
Posted Saturday September 5, 2009 7:11 AM | Liberty | 1,517
EDITORIAL, New York Times
After the C.I.A. inspector general’s report on prisoner interrogation was released last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney settled into his usual seat on Fox News to express his outrage — not at the illegal and immoral behavior laid out in the report, of course, but at the idea that anyone would object to torturing prisoners. He was especially vexed that the Obama administration was beginning an investigation. more. . .
Posted Thursday September 3, 2009 4:37 PM | Torture | 1,634
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Documents released by Congress, including testimony from Karl Rove, offer powerful new evidence that the Bush administration fired top prosecutors who refused to use their offices to promote the electoral fortunes of Republicans. more. . .
Posted Thursday August 13, 2009 6:51 AM | Government | 2,074
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Of the many examples of the Bush administration’s abusive and incompetent detainee policies, one of the most baffling is the case of Mohammed Jawad. Mr. Jawad, an Afghan, was no older than 17 and likely even younger when he was captured in 2002 and thrown into indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. more. . .
Posted Wednesday August 5, 2009 11:17 AM | Justice | 2,102
EDITORIAL, New York Times
It was disturbing to learn the other day just how close the last administration came to violating laws barring the military from engaging in law enforcement when President George W. Bush considered sending troops into a Buffalo suburb in 2002 to arrest terrorism suspects. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily a problem of the past. More needs to be done to ensure that the military is not illegally deployed in this country. more. . .
Posted Thursday July 30, 2009 7:24 AM | Liberty | 2,181
Suzanne Goldenberg and Damian Carrington, Guardian
Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.
The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. more. . .
The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. more. . .
Posted Sunday July 26, 2009 7:32 AM | Environment | 1,274
Ryan Singel, Wired
The Justice Department needs to investigate whether the secretiveness of Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program tainted terrorism prosecutions by hiding exculpatory evidence from defendants, an oversight report from five inspectors general warned Friday.
The report (.pdf), mandated by Congress, also warned that President’ Bush’s post-9/11 extrajudicial intelligence programs involved unprecedented collection of communications, and that the government needs to be careful about storing and using that data. more. . .
The report (.pdf), mandated by Congress, also warned that President’ Bush’s post-9/11 extrajudicial intelligence programs involved unprecedented collection of communications, and that the government needs to be careful about storing and using that data. more. . .
Posted Friday July 10, 2009 5:42 PM | Liberty | 1,359
Dan Froomkin, Washington Post
Today's column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for spending your time with me and engaging with me over the years. And thank you for the recent outpouring of support. It was extraordinarily uplifting, and I'm deeply grateful. If I ever had any doubt, your words have further inspired me to continue doing accountability journalism. My plan is to take a few weeks off before embarking upon my next endeavor -- but when I do, I hope you'll join me.
It's hard to summarize the past five and a half years. But I'll try. more. . .
It's hard to summarize the past five and a half years. But I'll try. more. . .
Posted Friday June 26, 2009 2:13 PM | Bush | 1,195
Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers
If former vice president Darth Cheney had been arrested for any of his multiple felonies, he might remember the most important of the Miranda rights that the arresting officer would have read to him: You have the right to remain silent.
These days, you can't turn on your television without finding Cheney’s doughboy face on the screen, alternately repeating old lies, mouthing new lies or defiantly confessing to yet another criminal act. more. . .
These days, you can't turn on your television without finding Cheney’s doughboy face on the screen, alternately repeating old lies, mouthing new lies or defiantly confessing to yet another criminal act. more. . .
Posted Thursday June 4, 2009 5:08 PM | Cheney | 2,019
Richard A. Clarke, Washington Post
Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call it the White House 9/11 trauma defense. more. . .
Posted Saturday May 30, 2009 7:12 AM | 9/11 | 1,427
FRANK RICH, New York Times
WE don’t like our evil to be banal. Ten years after Columbine, it only now may be sinking in that the psychopathic killers were not jock-hating dorks from a “Trench Coat Mafia,” or, as ABC News maintained at the time, “part of a dark, underground national phenomenon known as the Gothic movement.” In the new best seller “Columbine,” the journalist Dave Cullen reaffirms that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were instead ordinary American teenagers who worked at the local pizza joint, loved their parents and were popular among their classmates.
On Tuesday, it will be five years since Americans first confronted the photographs from Abu Ghraib on “60 Minutes II.” Here, too, we want to cling to myths that quarantine the evil. more. . .
On Tuesday, it will be five years since Americans first confronted the photographs from Abu Ghraib on “60 Minutes II.” Here, too, we want to cling to myths that quarantine the evil. more. . .
Posted Sunday April 26, 2009 7:08 AM | Torture | 2,630
BRIAN KNOWLTON, New York Times
WASHINGTON — A newly declassified Congressional report released Tuesday outlined the most detailed evidence yet that the military’s use of harsh interrogation methods on terrorism suspects was approved at high levels of the Bush administration. more. . .
Posted Wednesday April 22, 2009 6:16 AM | Torture | 2,594
EDITORIAL, New York Times
To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush’s Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity. more. . .
Posted Sunday April 19, 2009 6:31 AM | Torture | 2,734
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Former president George W. Bush and some of his White House aides are gathering in Dallas this week to plan the future George W. Bush Policy Institute. There, I guess, they will ponder grand themes and marble foyers, but I propose they begin by simply renaming the place. I suggest naming it the "George W. Bush Institute of Management Failure" and dedicating it to studying how this presidency went so wrong -- a task as big as Texas itself. more. . .
Posted Tuesday April 14, 2009 6:18 AM | Bush | 1,648
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
It's no longer possible to mince words, or pretend we didn't know. The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's so-called "enhanced" interrogation methods, used on "high-value" terrorism suspects, plainly constituted torture. The time for euphemisms is over, and the time for accountability has arrived. more. . .
Posted Friday April 10, 2009 6:46 AM | Torture | 1,789