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Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Ear to the Ground: Italy Convicts CIA Agents for Rendition

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Reports: A War of Absurdity

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t Buckle Under on Torture Inquiry

Ear to the Ground: Ex-CIA Heads Ask Obama to Drop Interrogation Investigation

Ear to the Ground: Legal Troubles Might Lie in Wait for Ashcroft

Reports: Obama’s Meaningless War

Cartoons: Redacted

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Chimes In on Interrogation

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama Might Replace CIA Chief

Ear to the Ground: Obama Aims to Improve America’s Interrogation Record

Ear to the Ground: AG to Appoint Torture Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: Robert Novak Dies at 78

Reports: War Without Purpose

Ear to the Ground: House Committee to Launch CIA Probe

Cartoons: Darth Cheney [A Cartoon From Germany]

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Ear to the Ground: CIA Program Too Good to Be True?

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Wiretaps Now Even More Warrantless

Ear to the Ground: CIA ‘Lied’ to Congress

A/V Booth: Classic Coups, Cloaks and Daggers

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

A/V Booth: No Big Surprise: Torture Yields Bogus Info

Ear to the Ground: CIA Chief Wonders Whether Cheney Wishes for Terrorist Attack

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Ear to the Ground: Nominee Pulls Out Before Being Questioned About Torture

Ear to the Ground: Elderly Couple Arrested as Spies

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

A/V Booth: Was Bob Graham Briefed About Torture?

Reports: A Truth Commission Beckons

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Finds Some Backing

Arts and Culture: Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Mike Huckabee

Ear to the Ground: Report: U.S. Marine Unit Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians

Ear to the Ground: The Pelosi Puzzle

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nancy, It’s Leon. We Have to Talk.’

Ear to the Ground: Newt vs. Nancy

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Denied by the CIA

Ear to the Ground: House Speaker Speaks Up

Ear to the Ground: Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sticks By Her Waterboarding Denial

Ear to the Ground: What Did Pelosi Know?

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

Reports: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam With 9/11

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Reports: When Slapped, Slap Back

Reports: Obama Stands Nuremberg on Its Head

Ear to the Ground: The 183rd Time’s the Charm

Ear to the Ground: A Decision Not to Prosecute

Ear to the Ground: DoJ Releases Bush-Era Torture Memos

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Truthdig Podcast: Documenting 8 Years of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Sex Scandal Calls CIA’s Self-Policing Into Question

Ear to the Ground: Bush Left Scooter ‘Hanging in the Wind,’ Says Cheney

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: CIA Torture Coverup Was Worse Than We Knew

Arts and Culture: Penn May Take On Plame ‘Game’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Reports: Bush’s Short View of History

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Picks Top Spies

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Reports: Torture Proponents Have No Serious Argument

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: Dangerous ‘Far-Left Loons’ Nixed Torture

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Hegemony on the Outs

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Reports: Paying for Eight Years of Bush’s Delusions

Ear to the Ground: Bush Memos OK’d CIA Torture

Ear to the Ground: ‘¡Adios, Ambassador!’ Say Chavez and Morales

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Arts and Culture: James Blight on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Reports: “Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?”

A/V Booth: Ron Suskind on Bush’s ‘Great Lies’

Ear to the Ground: White House Fabricated Iraq Intelligence, Book Alleges

Reports: Acts of War

Reports: The Military-Industrial Complex: It’s Much Later Than You Think

Ear to the Ground: Justice Torture Memos Say ‘Good Faith’ Is Legal Defense

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Maybe Consider Thinking About Talking to Iran

Ear to the Ground: Bush Claims Privilege Over Cheney Interviews

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida Analysis: Election Year Edition

Reports: Where Is the Outrage?

Ear to the Ground: The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

A/V Booth: Syria: Nukes or Peace?

Reports: A Torture Debate Among Healers

Reports: Torture’s Poet Laureate

Reports: The Only Lesson We Ever Learn Is That We Never Learn

Reports: Dinner With Ahmed

Ear to the Ground: Inside a CIA Black Site

Ear to the Ground: Waterboarding, ‘Harsh’ Techniques OK by Bush

Reports: The Mughniyeh Enigma

Ear to the Ground: Justice Investigates Itself Over Waterboarding Approval

Cartoons: BFF’s

Reports: Castro and the Colossus

Ear to the Ground: McCain Votes Against Torture Ban

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Outlaw Waterboarding

Reports: Tortured Semantics

Ear to the Ground: CIA: Waterboarding Possibly Illegal

Ear to the Ground: Bush Approved CIA Waterboarding Disclosure

Reports: Western Civilization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Reports: The Invisible War

Ear to the Ground: The Price of America’s Patronage

Ear to the Ground: Closing In on Bhutto’s Killer

Ear to the Ground: Ranking Republican: CIA Wanted Torture Tapes Preserved

Ear to the Ground: 9/11 Panel Leaders Accuse CIA, White House of Obstructing Inquiry

Ear to the Ground: Mukasey Launches Probe of CIA Tapes

Reports: Musharraf Still Stands

A/V Booth: Paul: U.S. Should Keep Its Nose Out of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: CIA Says It Gave Probers What They Asked For

Reports: Fear, Loathing and the Crisis of Confidence

Ear to the Ground: White House Held Torture Tape Discussions

Reports: Surviving a CIA ‘Black Site’

Ear to the Ground: Judge Orders Hearing Over CIA Tape Scandal

Ear to the Ground: Mukasey Stonewalls Congress in CIA Tape Inquiry

Reports: Waterboarding Our Democracy

Ear to the Ground: Ex-CIA Agent: White House Authorized Torture

Ear to the Ground: Congress Summons CIA Director

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Investigate Destruction of CIA Tapes

Ear to the Ground: Waterboarding Was OK With Top Dems

Ear to the Ground: Capitol Hill Dems Push for CIA Tape Inquiry

Ear to the Ground: CIA Withheld and Destroyed ‘Severe Interrogation’ Tapes

Cartoons: What Would Jesus Do Without a Lawyer?

Ear to the Ground: Perino: Bush Didn’t Lie to McClellan

Ear to the Ground: Ex-Press Secretary Claims Team Bush Deceived Him in Plame Case

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Delaying Iraqi Executions?

A/V Booth: PBS Investigates Bush-Era ‘Extraordinary Rendition’

Ear to the Ground: Source of Faulty Iraq Weapons Claims Revealed

Ear to the Ground: Dems Set to Cave on Mukasey

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’:  Valerie Plame Wilson’s Covert Bosom

Ear to the Ground: Bush Cronies Defend Torture

Ear to the Ground: Che’s Hair Goes on Sale

Reports: Clinton Rejects ‘Bush-Cheney Power Grab’

Ear to the Ground: Plame Tells Tale of Betrayal in New Memoir

Ear to the Ground: Britain to Investigate ‘CIA Black Site’

Reports: Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Times

Reports: Do You Know the Truth About Lockerbie?

Reports: Outsourcing Torture

Reports: The Martyring of Che Guevara

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Refuses to Hear Torture Case

Ear to the Ground: Killing Che Guevara

Cartoons: Bush Plays Hide and Seek with Torture

Ear to the Ground: Secret Torture Memos Shame Justice Dept.

Ear to the Ground: Iran to U.S.: I’m Rubber, You’re Glue

Reports: Iraq Will Have to Wait

Cartoons: More Frightening Than Bin Laden

Cartoons: Intelligence Test

Ear to the Ground: CIA Report Blames Tenet for 9/11 Failure

A/V Booth: ‘Jihad The Musical’ Hits Edinburgh Stage

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Rendition Ignored British Protest

Ear to the Ground: Bush Clarifies Official Position on Torture (Kind of)

Ear to the Ground: The CIA Flashes Its ‘Family Jewels’

Ear to the Ground: The CIA’s ‘Family Jewels’

Ear to the Ground: Intelligence Chief to Revise Spy Rules

Ear to the Ground: Report: Secret CIA Prisons in Poland, Romania

A/V Booth: ‘60 Minutes’ Grills Tenet

Reports: Tenet’s Share of the Shame

Cartoons: Railroading Democracy

Reports: After Thousands Have Died, Tenet Comes Clean

Ear to the Ground: Tenet: Cheney Distorted His ‘Slam Dunk’ Remark

Reports: U.S. Frees International Terrorist

Ear to the Ground: French Intelligence Warned of Airline Terror Plot in 2001

Ear to the Ground: Abducted Iranian’s Injuries Confirmed

Ear to the Ground: CIA: North Korea Blew Nuke Test

A/V Booth: Bill Maher Accuses Bush of Treason

A/V Booth: Audio Tribute to Valerie Plame Wilson

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week:  Valerie Plame Wilson

Ear to the Ground: ‘Scooter’ Libby Found Guilty

Ear to the Ground: Plame Ready for Close-Up

Ear to the Ground: Kidnapped by the CIA

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Will Protect Alleged Kidnappers

Ear to the Ground: ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ on Trial

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