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The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Al-Qaeda, Col. Stephen Henley, David Hicks, Guantanamo, Taliban, Omar Khadr, Dick Cheney, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Tarek El-Sawah, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Col. James Pohl, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Abdul Ghani, Ahmed Al-Darbi, Afghanistan, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Noor Uthman Muhammed, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics, World News

The Military Commissions to try Guantanamo detainees have rarely grabbed the media attention that a novel, flagship program to try "terror suspects" should have attracted.

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Regarding Panetta: Let's Not Forget About Gates

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Transition, Department of Defense, Cia, National Security, Cia Director, Jay Rockefeller, Central Intelligence Agency, Dni, Leon Panetta, Dianne Feinstein, Director of National Intelligence, CIA Torture, Leon Panetta Obama, Barack Obama, Feinstein Panetta, Bush Administration Torture, Panetta Torture, Obama Cabinet, Dennis Blair, Obama Appointees, Obama Appointments, Central Intelligence Agency Obama, Torture, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News

Placing an inexperienced person like Leon Panetta at CIA for his clean hands and "managerial expertise" will cost lives on the day of the next domestic terrorist attack.

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One)

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

Cheney's version of the truth on interrogations does not stand up to scrutiny, and features ten lies that should not be allowed to pass without further comment and analysis.

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Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

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At the Crossroads of Politics and Art, Jenny Holzer is Waiting

Victoria Lautman | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Iraq War, Guantanamo Detainees, Brutality, Politics, Art, Jenny Holzer, Chicago, Bosnian War, Terrorism, War, Us Government, CIA Torture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Aclu, Torture, George Bush, Iraq, Chicago News

The exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is timely indeed. Not to mention alarming. Even sickening.

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Is The 9/11 Trial Confession An Al-Qaeda Propaganda Coup?

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11 Trials, Al-Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, 9/11, CIA Torture, President Bush, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics News

I can only wonder if Mohammed have decided that their best hope for advancing al-Qaeda's cause lies in trying to secure a conviction in the tainted Military Commissions before Obama can dismantle them.

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Top Intelligence Picks a No-Win for Obama

Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Private Contractors, Cia, Director of National Intelligence, National Security, Federal Government, Private Security Contractors, Obama's Cabinet, CIA Torture, Obama Transition, Intelligence Community, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Politics News

The Obama transition team's highly anticipated announcement of its new national security lineup has telling omissions: there's no Director of National Intelligence or CIA Director.

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Kristol Calls On Bush To Pardon Torturers And Wiretappers

Think Progress | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bill Kristol, Torture, Wiretapping, Weekly Standard, Bush Pardons, Politics News

In his new Weekly Standard column, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol lays out a to-do list for President Bush before he leaves office. He urges Bush to d...

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A Troubled World Awaits President Obama

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islam and the West, John McCain, Israel and Palestine Talks, Afghanistan, Muslim Americans, Israel Lobby, George W. Bush, CIA Torture, Democratic Party, Pentagon Propaganda, Russia Georgia War, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Wall Street Crisis, North Korea Nuclear Program, Financial Crisis, State Department Iraq, Republican Party, Obama Europe Trip, Ukraine Government Collapes, China, Politics News

Obama's honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe.

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A Bright New Day - But What Now, President Obama?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, Obama Election Day, Election Day, President Obama, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama 2008, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Barack Obama President, Politics News

Millions of Americans have proved that they are hungry for change and have elected a president whose very identity bridges a divide in American society.

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"Top Cover"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Executive Immunity, George Bush, Karl Rove, Bush Administration, Destroyed Emails Bush Administration, Bush War Crimes, George W. Bush, Top Cover, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Dick Cheney, Politics News

A government that makes peace more profitable than war is one that provides the leadership needed to move us from a state of continual peril.

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The Collapse of Omar Khadr's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Salim Hamdan, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Politics News

The latest news to rock the Commissions is that the trial of Omar Khadr... has been delayed until after the administration leaves office.

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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The Dark Heart of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Vandevelt's profound criticisms of a system that imprisons juveniles and suppresses evidence relevant to the defense, is just part of a much darker narrative that has been unfolding for the last 18 months.

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A Message to Barack Obama: Don't Forget Cheney and Addington

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John McCain, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Bagram, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Obama the presidential candidate has been almost silent on the crimes of the current administration.

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Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Yousef, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Ammar Al-Baluchi, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Col. Ralph Kohlmann, Military Commissions, Politics News

It could all have been so different. Between September 2002 and April 2003, the five defendants in the forthcoming 9/11 trial at Guantánamo -- Khalid...

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Top Bush Officials Participated In Torture Talks, New Documents Show

NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft Waterboarding, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, John Ashcroft, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency ...

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Victim of Rendition and Torture Freed from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tipton Three, Rustam Akhmyarov, Indonesia, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, Egypt, Terrorism, Pakistan, CIA Torture, Mamdouh Habib, The Guantanamo Files, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first...

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CIA Torture Memo: Harsh Interrogation Legal If It's In "Good Faith"

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Bybee Memo, Cia Torture Memo, Cia Torture Memos, White House Torture, Doj Torture Memo, Doj Torture Memos, Cia Harsh Interrogation Techniques, Cia Interrogation Techniques, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture la...

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2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Torture, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Waterboarding, Cia Waterboarding, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture la...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: FBI Watch List, Karl Rove Fox News, Phil Gramm, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Don Siegelman, Networks Iraq War Coverage, Arlington Cemetary, Bush Library Donations, Michael Mukasey, Antarctic Ice Shelf, CIA Torture, Karl Rove Subpoena, Global Warming, Green News

Karl Rove flees the country, Schwarzenegger calls Bush administration approach to global warming "bogus," Antarctic ice shelf on verge of collapse, U.S. terrorist watch list tops one million.

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Ashcroft Suggests CIA Started Torturing, Then Sought Legal Cover

Salon | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Cia Waterboarding, John Ashcroft Testimony, John Ashcroft Testifies, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Torture Memo, Torture Memos, Bush Administration Torture, Politics News

Much attention has been focused on the bizarre legal reasoning behind the Bush administration's "torture memos," a series of documents starting in Aug...

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Red Cross: CIA Tortured, Officials Could Be Guilty Of War Crimes

NY Times | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Cia, Waterboarding Torture, Counterterrorism, Abu Zubaydah, CIA Torture, Secret CIA Prisons, Waterboarding, Cia Waterboarding, White House Torture, Al Qaeda, Torture, Politics News

Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda priso...

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Sex Crimes in the White House

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lynndie England, Sexual Torture, Condoleezza Rice, CIA Torture, Sex Torture, Torture and Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Torture, Sexual Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Politics News

The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.

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Guantanamo Trials: Another Torture Victim Charged

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Al-Qaeda, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, David Hicks, Uss Cole Bombing, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Gen. Michael Hayden, Military Commissions, Politics News

In the real world, where evidence obtained through torture is inadmissible, it remains unclear whether the government's attempts to set up a judicial system for alleged terrorists will ever be successful.

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