By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatchApr 7, 2017
In the Middle East and elsewhere, the Trump administration has begun to signal that human rights aren’t exactly on its agenda. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchJul 29, 2013
After years in absentia, retired CIA operative Robert Seldon Lady reappeared out of nowhere on the border between Panama and Costa Rica. And then -- poof! -- he vanished a second time. Not another news story was heard here in the U.S. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 22, 2013
The president maintains a "global system of kidnapping, torture, rape and murder" to demoralize and coerce those who would oppose the American-led neoliberal empire, political economist Rob Urie writes in CounterPunch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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By Greg Grandin, TomDispatchFeb 19, 2013
On a map published in conjunction with the Global Society Institute's damning new CIA report, no region except Latin America escapes the red stain of the United States' global rendition and torture gulag. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 6, 2013
The former CIA officer who blew the whistle on waterboarding is preparing to serve a 30-month prison sentence for disclosing to a reporter the name of a covert agent previously involved in the government’s torture program. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 2, 2013
The Obama administration continues to embrace rendition -- “the [controversial] practice of holding and interrogating terrorism suspects in other countries without due process” -- as it remains at odds with Congress over how to apprehend and try such suspects overseas, The Washington Post reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatchAug 15, 2012
Through rendition -- the sending of terrorist suspects to the prisons of countries that torture -- and related policies, President Obama has outsourced human rights abuse to Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere, thus avoiding the political stigma of torture, while tacitly tolerating such abuses and harvesting whatever intelligence can be gained from them. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Marjorie CohnMar 26, 2011
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is facing court-martial for allegedly leaking military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, is being held in solitary confinement in Quantico brig in Virginia. Each night, he is forced to strip naked and sleep in a gown made of coarse material. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Barry Lando / TruthdigDec 30, 2010
Thursday's New York Times headline on Pakistani disappearances and US disapproval is just a bit too much to take (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 9, 2010
Five men who say they were kidnapped and tortured would like to sue a Boeing subsidiary for flying them to their agony, but the Obama administration successfully convinced an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the case. One judge said the court "reluctantly" bought the national security argument. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 7, 2009
John Brennan has known controversy for his defense of torture and rendition, but the president's top counterterrorism adviser has just condemned the Bush administration's approach by declaring: "We cannot shoot ourselves out of this challenge." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 5, 2009
The Justice Department has released nine secret memos and opinions written by the Office of Legal Counsel that authorized some of the Bush administration's unlawful national security policies. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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