Gore Vidal / TruthdigJan 27, 2006
Internationally acclaimed essayist, novelist and playwright Gore Vidal argues that America under Bush is evincing characteristics of the post-fall-of-Rome Dark Ages: the triumph of faith over reason, the atrophy of education and critical thinking, and integration of the state, torture and religion. Dig deeper
Staff / TruthdigJan 24, 2006
The charge comes from the head of a European probe into alleged secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 13, 2006
A committee will investigate whether the CIA operated secret prisons in Eastern Europe. | storyAlso, documents show that the U.S. Army may have ended some detainee abuse probes prematurely. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJan 12, 2006
Amnesty International renews its request for the prison to be shut. | storyAlso, the U.S. general at the center of the detainee abuse scandal refuses to answer questions in a court-martial. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 5, 2006
After Bush signed the bill outlawing detainee torture, he "quietly reserved the right to bypass the law," acccording to the Boston Globe. more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 30, 2005
As Daily Kos puts it, "The British government is trying to prevent the publication of memos which detail how information procured by torture in Uzbekistan is being used by the US and the UK." The Independent has the story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 14, 2005
The more we learn of the Bush administration's pervasive outsourcing of torture, the more sensible it seems as a policy. Evidently, our intelligence people, tainted as they are by the squeamish morality of Western civilization, are just not fully up to the task of getting prisoners to tell us what the administration wants us to hear. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 4, 2005
Condi Rice is so tired of Old Europe and its human rights complaints. Big deal, so the CIA is using Soviet era torture camps in Eastern Europe to stash "war on terror" prisoners. Don't those fusspots in the EU understand that our use of torture is fundamentally different because we are the good guys and that Eastern Europe has been liberated? That outmoded European slogan of "friends don't let friends use torture" is so over. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 2, 2005
Now that the Pentagon has admitted to subverting the fragile efforts to build democracy in Iraq, will Congress begin an investigation of how this happened? The first question should be who in the Pentagon decided that he or she had the right to put words in the mouth of the Prophet Muhammad. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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