Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
Jul 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.
Obama’s Terror Campaign
Apr 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.
The Latin American Exception
Feb 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.
John Kiriakou Becomes First CIA Officer to Face Prison for Classified Leak
Jan 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.
Rendition Persists Despite Due Process Concerns
Jan 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.
Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad
Aug 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.
Bradley Manning Treatment Reveals Continued Government Complicity in Torture
Mar 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.
Pakistani Disappearances: C’mon Guys
Dec 30, 2010 Thursday's New York Times headline on Pakistani disappearances and US disapproval is just a bit too much to take (more).
Court Dismisses Torture Flights Case
Sep 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.
Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job
Aug 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."
