List of Torture & War Crimes articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Torture protest fatigue? I know Dick Cheney needs help, but I am sick of this
Tom Ricks questions the justification of torture by American officials.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Torture Report Is Only the First Step
Next must come investigation, punishment, and binding law to make sure that America never loses sight of its morals again.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From Bush to Obama, Eyes Wide Shut
The same memo Bush used to wall himself off from the details of CIA torture is keeping Obama’s drone war alive.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CIA Chief Won’t Rule Out a Return of Torture Techniques
John Brennan admitted that waterboarding detainees and threatening them with power drills was “abhorrent,” but refused to say it was torture -- or promise it wouldn't be used again.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tick, Tick, Bull, Shit
Don’t believe the CIA’s ticking time bomb excuse when it says it had to torture.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CIA Ignored Its Own Lessons in Turning to Torture After 9/11
For decades, the CIA has known and acknowledged that torture doesn't work. Yet that's what it sought in the aftermath of 9/11.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. intelligence community poses threat to American way of life, report finds
The CIA and the NSA have undermined the laws -- and the values -- of the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Definite End to Indefinite Detention Is Within Reach
The Obama administration gave itself the tools and power to release the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. But it doesn't seem to want to use them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Zero Dark Dishonesty
The CIA says torture helped the United States find Osama bin Laden, but the Senate says it made the search even harder.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Coming Clean, With Bloodstained Hands
Why the release of the damning, horrific Senate torture report could be a bright spot for American democracy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CIA’s Claims That Torture Stopped ‘Karachi Plots’ Are Baseless, Senate Report Says
The nation’s leading spy agency has long claimed credit for preventing a devastating attack in Pakistan. The Senate report says that’s a lie.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘A Stain on Our Values and Our History’
The Senate’s torture report paints a disturbing picture of a spy agency run amok, but the CIA says it’s getting blamed for doing the dirty work necessary to save American lives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Pistol Near the Head and a Cordless Drill Near the Body
The Senate’s torture report says a CIA operative held a cordless electric drill to the body of a top al Qaeda suspect and turned it on. Then things got really brutal.
