Grim Details Emerge in New Detainee Abuse Scandal

Staff / Truthdig Mar 19, 2006 The New York Times uncovers the story of a top-secret detention center in Baghdad where American jailers "used detainees for target practice in a game of jailer paintball." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abu Ghraib Victim Exploiting His Own Torture?

Staff / Truthdig Mar 17, 2006 NFL star Tiki Barber, a "Fox & Friends" guest host, asserted that an Abu Ghraib torture victim is "taking advantage" of his past by heading a prisoners' rights group. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Symbol of Abu Ghraib Seeks to Spare Others His Nightmare

Staff / Truthdig Mar 11, 2006 The photo of him in a hood, arms outspread and with electrical wires trailing from his body became the definitive image of the prison abuse scandal. He is now heading up a prisoners' rights organization. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abu Ghraib Closing? Don’t Cheer Just Yet

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2006 Some sources are reporting that the U.S. has decided to close the notorious prison and transfer its prisoners elsewhere, but don't celebrate just yet: The seeds for future abuse are already well sown. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pat Roberts, Uncovered

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 Think Progress puts together an in-depth cheat sheet on all the ways Roberts has shrunk from his responsibilities as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Our Amnesiac Torture Debate

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 Bush's choice of Panama to make his declaration that America does not torture "is a little like dropping by a slaughterhouse to pronounce the United States a nation of vegetarians." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Amnesty Says Iraq Prison Abuses Continue

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2006 Even in the wake of Abu Ghraib, reports of torture in American-run Iraqi prisons continue to "pour out of Iraq," according to Amnesty International. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gitmo Prisoner Tells of ‘Torture’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 4, 2006 In a rare interview with the BBC, the Guantanamo detainee says that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture: "Death in this situation is better than being alive and staying here without hope," he says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush: Torture Ban Not Valid at Gitmo

Staff / Truthdig Mar 3, 2006 Truly shocking: White House lawyers are arguing that the new law banning cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees does not apply to people held at Guantanamo. Of course, we should have seen this coming when Bush, upon signing the law, brushed off Congress and America by reserving the right to ignore the law under his powers as commander in chief. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Inching Toward Authoritarianism

Staff / Truthdig Feb 24, 2006 A legendary South African journalist calls himself "appalled" at the way America's policies of wiretapping and torture are beginning to resemble those of apartheid Cape Town. (Video available.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Acknowledged

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2006 The head of the American detention center confirms that his officials have been carrying out the aggressive practice in an attempt to preserve the lives of prisoners on hunger strikes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Arianna Smacks Down Hannity and Coulter

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2006 We stood up and cheered when we saw this one: Sean Hannity needles Arianna Huffington about something Alec Baldwin said, and Arianna throws it back in his face by listing some of the indefensible and "toxic" things Ann Coulter has said over the years. Good one, Arianna. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )