Behind the Scenes at Gitmo

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2006 ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it. The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as "custodial interviews." The room pictured above--which has a plush lazy chair--is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms. This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Court Ruling May Cancel Bush’s ‘Blank Check’ for Terror War

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 Specifically, today's Supreme Court ruling held that the president overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. But more important, Think Progress interprets the ruling to mean that "the Authorization for the Use of Military Force -- issued by Congress in the days after 9/11 -- is not a blank check for the administration." Also, SCOTUSblog says the ruling means that the Geneva Convention does apply to the conflict with Al Qaeda, and consequently "this almost certainly means that the CIA's interrogation tactics of waterboarding and hypothermia (and others) violate the War Crimes Act." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Torture Legalese

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Book Blows Lid on America’s Torture and Interrogation

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2006 In his new book, ?The One Percent Doctrine,? Ron Suskind details how America's torture of a mentally ill prisoner led the White House to pursue false leads in the war on terror. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘The Most Powerful Person You’ve Never Heard Of’

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2006 It's David Addington, Dick Cheney's new chief of staff, who has been instrumental in fashioning legal arguments to support presidential-sanctioned torture, the attempt to discredit Joe Wilson, and the bogus Niger uranium story. U.S. News has the goods in this fantastic profile. Sickened by those "signing statements" that Bush uses to essentially ignore the laws Congress has passed? Addington has his fingerprints all over those. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.N. Panel: Close Guantanamo

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2006 A United Nations panel on torture isn't buying President Bush's assurances that America does not send suspected terrorists to countries known for using torture to extract information. The panel also recommended the closing of America's Guantanamo military prison in Cuba. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ray McGovern

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2006 Truthdig salutes Ray McGovern, the 27-year CIA veteran who articulated the outrage of a nation by publicly and heroically challenging Donald Rumsfeld's lies about Iraqi WMD. Click here for the full report. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Hasn’t Curbed Torture: Report

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2006 Amnesty International's report says the US has failed to eradicate "widespread" torture in its jails in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba Also, no senior U officials have been held accountable for the practices . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: The Great Bush Reclassification Project

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Apr 27, 2006 It's nice to know that the investigative reporter Jack Anderson is still under investigation, although seriously dead. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

What Would Jack Bauer Really Do?

Adam Elkus / Truthdig Apr 26, 2006 In championing ?24,? Pat Buchanan and Bush administration apologists oversimplify a complex depiction of counter-terrorism and also use an idealized fictional violence to justify real-world abuses of the law and authority. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

More Torture Discovered in Iraqi Jails

Staff / Truthdig Apr 24, 2006 US inspectors are not removing from Iraqi jails prisoners who show signs of being tortured by Iraqi jailers--as the U has pledged to do This is progress--of a sort Now, instead of torturing the prisoners ourselves, we're turning a blind eye to Iraqi-on-Iraqi torture. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The White House That Cried Wolf

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 28, 2006 The more that administration leaders play games with definitions of democracy and weasel wording about torture, the less they can be believed about anything. So if they someday tell the truth, no one will believe them. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )