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Ear to the Ground: Bush Speaks of Legacy

Ear to the Ground: 5 Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Freed

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

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

A/V Booth: Barack and Michelle Obama on the Next Four Years

Reports: No End to the Savagery in Afghanistan

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Reports: President Obama Can Redeem the White House

Reports: End of a Catholic Commandment?

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: A Bush-Style Whitewash

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

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Palin vs. Palin

Ear to the Ground: White House Angered by Guantanamo Ruling

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Reports: Memoir Politics

A/V Booth: Mr. McCain Goes to Washington

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

Reports: What’s Sex Got to Do With It?

Ear to the Ground: Shock Therapy Buzzes On

A/V Booth: The U.S. Role in Mexico’s Drug War

Ear to the Ground: Palestinian Security Forces Accused of Torture

Reports: Bush’s Legacy of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Argentine ‘Dirty War’ Murderer Gets Life

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

Cartoons: Canada’s Slight Detour

Ear to the Ground: Ashcroft Defends Waterboarding at House Hearing

A/V Booth: Ashcroft Testifies About Guantanamo Interrogation Methods

Reports: ‘Kafka Comes to America’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Borrowed Interrogation Methods From an Old Enemy

A/V Booth: Waterboarding Christopher Hitchens

A/V Booth: Way Beyond Waterboarding

Cartoons: Courting Disaster

Reports: A Government of Law, Not Fear

Ear to the Ground: Senators Fume Over Torture Revelations

Reports: Impatient Justice

Reports: One for the Constitution

Reports: Kucinich Tilts at Impeachment

Ear to the Ground: McClellan to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Lawyer Alleges Torture Evidence Destruction

Ear to the Ground: ‘9/11 Mastermind’ Mohammed Says He Wants Death Penalty

Ear to the Ground: Probe Reopened in ’73 Murder of Chilean Singer

Ear to the Ground: Egyptian Blogger Endured ‘Weeks of Torture and Humiliation’

Ear to the Ground: Amnesty International Points to 60 Years of Failure

Reports: Where Is the Outrage?

Reports: Torturing Iron Man

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on Our ‘Managed Democracy’

Reports: The Face of Torture

Reports: The Tortured Law on Torture

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Arianna Huffington on McCain’s ‘Viagra’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Releases Journalist After 6 Years

Reports: The High Price of Diplomacy With China

A/V Booth: ‘Condi Must Go’

Ear to the Ground: Thou Shalt Kill

Reports: A Torture Debate Among Healers

Ear to the Ground: The President’s Right to Poke Out Eyes

Reports: Torture’s Poet Laureate

Ear to the Ground: Inside a CIA Black Site

Reports: Spitzer’s Shame Is Wall Street’s Gain

Reports: Why George Bush Loves John McCain

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

Arts and Culture: Warren Cohen on the Rise (and Fall) of the Neocons

Cartoons: Slowdown

Reports: Taxi to the Dark Side

A/V Booth: Interrogator: Torture Endangers America

Reports: Alex Gibney in Conversation With Robert Scheer

Ear to the Ground: Justice Investigates Itself Over Waterboarding Approval

Ear to the Ground: The Nation: Gitmo Trials Are Reported Rigged

Cartoons: BFF’s

Ear to the Ground: McCain Votes Against Torture Ban

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Outlaw Waterboarding

Ear to the Ground: Inside the Mind of Pol Pot’s Henchman

Reports: Tortured Semantics

Reports: What Will McCain Do Now?

Ear to the Ground: CIA: Waterboarding Possibly Illegal

Ear to the Ground: Bush Approved CIA Waterboarding Disclosure

Ear to the Ground: Mukasey Dodges Senators’ Grilling on Waterboarding

Reports: Western Civilization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Reports: The Whole World Was Watching

Arts and Culture: Michael Gorra on J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Diary of a Bad Year’

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

A/V Booth: Romney Hazy on Torture Definition

Ear to the Ground: Spy Chief Wants to Read Your E-Mail

Ear to the Ground: George McGovern:  Impeach Bush and Cheney

Ear to the Ground: Mukasey Launches Probe of CIA Tapes

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

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: CIA Withheld and Destroyed ‘Severe Interrogation’ Tapes

A/V Booth: GOP YouTube Debate Highlights

Cartoons: What Would Jesus Do Without a Lawyer?

Ear to the Ground: Ashcroft Willing to Be Waterboarded

Reports: Have They No Shame?

Ear to the Ground: Bridge Protest Leaves U.S. Team Vulnerable

Reports: Bush Stands by His Dictator

Reports: Who Said Politics Was Fair?

Ear to the Ground: Your New Attorney General

Reports: Standing Up for Torture, at Home and Abroad

Ear to the Ground: Schumer and Feinstein Hand Torture a Victory

Reports: A Vote for Mukasey Is a Vote for Torture

A/V Booth: Keith Olbermann on Torture and Conspiracy

Cartoons: The ‘T’ Word

Ear to the Ground: Commemorating ‘Counterterrorism Day’

Ear to the Ground: Dems Set to Cave on Mukasey

Ear to the Ground: Bush: You Get Mukasey or No One at All

Ear to the Ground: Monks Venture Out in Burma

Ear to the Ground: Bush Cronies Defend Torture

Reports: The American Police State

Reports: Don’t Give Mukasey a Pass

Reports: Clinton Rejects ‘Bush-Cheney Power Grab’

Cartoons: A Word in the Hand

Ear to the Ground: Bush Reportedly Pushed for Harsh Interrogations

Reports: On the Eve of Destruction

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

Cartoons: Bush and Cheney’s Halloween Dilemma

Reports: Sweeping Our Inhumanity Under the Rug

Ear to the Ground: ‘The Good Germans Among Us’

Reports: Outsourcing Torture

Ear to the Ground: Carter Has Had Enough

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Raytheon’s New ‘Silent Guardian’ Brings the Pain

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo: Still Abusing After All These Years

Ear to the Ground: Former DOJ Lawyer Blasts Bush Torture Policy

Reports: Abu Ghraib: One of Al’s Claims to Fame

Reports: A Legacy of Legitimizing Torture

Reports: Psychologists in Denial About Torture

Ear to the Ground: Padilla Convicted

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

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

Reports: Young Scholars Tell the President ‘No’ on Torture

Reports: Cheney the Survivor

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week:  Gen. Antonio M. Taguba

Reports: He’ll Always Have Albania

Reports: It Can Happen Here

Ear to the Ground: Colin Powell: Close Guantanamo Immediately

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

Reports: Hypocritical Oath: Psychologists and Torture

Reports: A Tale of Two Parties

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Detainee Commits Suicide

A/V Booth: Howard Dean Mixes It Up With Colbert

Ear to the Ground: Survey: Many Soldiers Approve of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Cleared Detainees Stuck in Gitmo Limbo

Ear to the Ground: Abducted Iranian’s Injuries Confirmed

Ear to the Ground: Iranian’s Torture Tale Denied by U.S.

Reports: Leave Your Morals at the Border

Reports: Closing Time for Torture Island

Ear to the Ground: Defense Secretary Asks Congress to Close Gitmo

Reports: American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim

Multimedia Gallery: Abu Ghraib

Ear to the Ground: Defense Secretary Wanted Gitmo Closed

Reports: From the Mind That Brought You Torture

Cartoons: Still Confessing

Ear to the Ground: Evidence of Torture at Iraqi Intelligence Agency

Ear to the Ground: Padilla Trial to Go Forward

Ear to the Ground: Kidnapped by the CIA

Reports: We’ll Lock Up Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Fixing the Torture Around the Policy

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Will ‘Welcome’ Cuban Migrants to Gitmo

Ear to the Ground: ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ on Trial

Ear to the Ground: EU Condemns ‘Rendition’ Enablers

A/V Booth: ‘24’ Creator Surnow is ‘World’s Worst’

Ear to the Ground: A Former Interrogator Speaks

Ear to the Ground: Germany Issues Warrants for CIA Agents

A/V Booth: ‘24’ Makes the Case for Torture

Ear to the Ground: ‘Rendition’ May Go on Trial

Ear to the Ground: Thatcher Saddened by Despot’s Death

Reports: Robert Scheer: Becoming What We Despise

Ear to the Ground: Padilla Video Exposes Detainment Practices

A/V Booth: ‘Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition’

Ear to the Ground: CIA Wants to Keep Interrogation Methods Secret

Ear to the Ground: Britain’s Alleged Torture Hypocrisy

Cartoons: Mike Luckovich - Appleboarding

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Appears to Confirm Waterboarding Use

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Torture Providing Cover for Other Countries

Ear to the Ground: Red Cross Condemns Torture Bill

A/V Booth: Let the Eagle Soar

Cartoons: Luckovich - A Black Eye for Uncle Sam

Ear to the Ground: Hillary Equivocates on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Bush Signs Torture Bill

Ear to the Ground: The Torture of an American, by Americans

A/V Booth: Olbermann: ‘Why Does Habeas Corpus Hate America?’

Ear to the Ground: AP: Gitmo Guards Bragged of Beatings

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ Rips Torture Bill

Reports: Marie Cocco:  Foley’s a Sideshow

Ear to the Ground: The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr

Ear to the Ground: The Lighter Side of Torture

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