America’s Darkest Secrets Are Laid Bare in ‘The Report’
A film about the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture brings to life the reality of crimes the agency committed post-9/11.
How the CIA’s Darkest Torture Secrets Were Exposed—and Covered Up
An investigator for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dan Jones, worked hard to get to the bottom of the agency’s torture program. Then-Attorney General Eric Holder and others conspired to keep the worst news hidden.
How the Government Made Me a Dissident
Nothing helps you appreciate our constitutional rights like being robbed of them.
VIDEO: John Oliver: 'Torture Is Medieval, Brutal and Beneath Us,' So Let's Make It Illegal
In anticipation of this week's vote on a proposed law against torture, drafted by Sens. John McCain and Dianne Feinstein, HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host gave an impassioned monologue on the Senate Committee Report on Torture.
Truthdigger of the Week: Whistleblower John Kiriakou
The former CIA agent has seen his life ripped apart by the government because he revealed CIA torture. However, he continues to stand up for truth and humaneness and against a system that views all of us as undiscovered felons.
Microsoft Software Translates Skype Conversations in Real Time
It's now possible to have a conversation in English and Spanish on Skype without having to hire an interpreter; the Rolling Stone writer continues to research her controversial story on UVA students; meanwhile, former Sen. Mark Udall revealed a "smoking gun" regarding the CIA torture report but no one seems to have noticed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Stephen Colbert: No One's Going to Pay Me to Watch Bill O'Reilly Anymore, So Fuck That Noise
As the "Colbert Report" films its last few episodes, host Stephen Colbert comes to a startling realization: He's going to miss Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly. Watch as the comedian pokes his final holes in O'Reilly's defense of unjustifiable, immoral acts such as CIA torture.
Truthdiggers of the Week: Sens. John McCain and Dianne Feinstein
Whatever we think of their foreign, domestic and economic policies, the senators from Arizona and California, respectively, said the right words when the Senate Intelligence Committee released its inquiry into the CIA's post-9/11 torture, detention and interrogation practices.
'Left, Right & Center': CIA Torture Report, Congressional Spending Bill
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on torture. Scheer says it calls into question whether there are "inalienable rights that human beings have by virtue of being human." Also, Congress struggles with the year-end omnibus spending bill.
President Obama Hosts 'Colbert Report' to Show Colbert Up...and Spread the Word About Obamacare
As Jon Stewart mentioned on the "Daily Show" on Tuesday, the decision to time the president's appearance on the "Colbert Report" to air before the Senate's CIA torture report was released may not be purely coincidental.
