List of Torture & War Crimes articles
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US-ENVIRONMENT-OIL-KA Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Soft Power Outage
The revelations about the United States' brutal torture program have damaged the country's best asset abroad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No One Expects the Bush Administration!
Torquemada Cheney does the Sunday talk shows.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exclusive: Obama’s Point Man for Closing Guantanamo to Step Down
The departure comes amid the Obama administration’s renewed push to try and close the controversial facility after a lengthy series of delays and false starts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Christmas Pardon
How Obama can solve all his torture report problems in one fell swoop.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Opening Cuba and Closing Gitmo?
Havana will be pushing hard to shut the naval station at Guantanamo Bay -- but Washington shouldn’t give in.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Half-Baked Justice
Have you ever employed enhanced interrogation techniques…on weed?
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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.