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Why Many Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Released Are Still Stuck There

This story was co-published with Slate.

Read our summary of the judge's remarkable ruling, which we've also posted in full.

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Bush and Obama: A Counterterrorism Comparison

As president-elect in late 2008, Barack Obama promised to “regain America’s moral stature in the world” by ending some of the Bush ad … more…

Do CIA Cables Show Doctors Monitoring Torture?

A version of this story was published on Salon.

Evidence is emerging that medical personnel monitored the medical effects of the wa … more…

Has Consulting Firm For CIA Gone MIA?

This story was updated on May 27, 2009 5:15 PM

Last week in Spokane, Wash., protesters rallied against torture outside the longtime … more…

Mark Danner and ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer Talk Torture

ProPublica senior reporter Dafna Linzer and Mark Danner, a New York Review of Books contributor and University of California at Berke … more…

Obama Pick’s Potential Conflict and Failed Torture Techniques

Here are our editors' picks from today's roundup of investigative stories around the Web. Was there a story we missed? Please k … more…

A Secret E-Mail Argument Among Psychologists About Torture

Earlier this week we published a story examining the psychology profession's tortured relationship with the Bush administration's Wa … more…

Tortured Profession: Psychologists Warned of Abusive Interrogations, Then Helped Craft Them

Update: May 7, 2009 5:45 p.m.

A version of this story was also published in Salon.

Psychologists versed in the military's Surv … more…

Philly Narc Raids and Torture Tunnel Vision

Here are our editors' picks from today's roundup of investigative stories around the Web. Was there a story we missed? Please k … more…

Torture Memos vs. Red Cross Report: Prisoners Describe Harsher Treatment Than in Guidelines

One of the most notable aspects of the recently released Bush-era legal memos on interrogation has been their level of precision: Wat … more…

Did Interrogators Cross Legal Line? Secret Sections of CIA IG Report May Hold Clues

The Obama administration has promised to back CIA employees who interrogated suspected terrorists within the limits set by Justice De … more…

Obama Confirms Door Is Open for Prosecution of Authors of Torture Memos

Last week, we noted that while the administration promised not to prosecute CIA interrogators who acted within the legal limits laid … more…

Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There

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Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden was fond of saying that when it came to handling high-value ter … more…

Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner

Among the OLC memos released today, one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in Janu … more…

Obama Promises to Defend Interrogators, But No Promise on the Bush Lawyers Who Signed Off

This afternoon the Obama administration released lightly redacted versions of four previously classified legal opinions from the Bush … more…

U.S. Medical Personnel and Interrogations: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?

This week's posting of a confidential International Committee of the Red Cross report (PDF) about the treatment of 14 "high value det … more…

How Long Will Secret Bush Counterterrorism Memos Stay Secret?

Uncertainty over how or whether the Obama administration will differ from its predecessor on counterterrorism matters continued yeste … more…

AG Nominee Holder Suggests Secret Memos May Be Released

Last week, we published the first comprehensive list of the Bush administration's still-secret legal memos on torture, detention and … more…

Bush’s Secret Counterterrorism Law Book—and the Demands to Release It

See our interactive chart of the Bush administration's still secret memos.

Last week, President Barack Obama formally repudiated ce … more…

Bush Administration Official Calls Torture ‘Torture’

A senior Pentagon official crossed into new linguistic territory to highlight the legal dilemma arising from the abusive treatment of … more…