New Gitmo Decision Offers Unusual Insight Into Weakness of Government Evidence
A recent federal court decision that yet another Guantanamo captive’s detention is illegal offers the most detailed picture to date o … 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…
List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
The CIA has not released the names of terrorism suspects it held in secret detention with the exception of 14 who were transferred to … more…
Why Obama’s New Definition of Terrorists Is a Lot Like the Old One
Government lawyers booted the term "enemy combatants" from the Washington vernacular last week. Now, the Justice Department is callin … more…
State Dept. Official: Trying to Confirm Son’s Identity, Citizenship
What happens when an 11-year-old U.S. citizen is held by Afghanistan's intelligence service? According to the U.S. State Department, … more…
Afghan Officials Holding Terror Suspect’s Son, a U.S. Citizen
The strange case of Aafia Siddiqui continues. As we wrote last week, there are lingering questions about where Siddiqui was in the fi … more…
Hamdan’s FBI Interrogator Warned Against Gitmo Trial
Last week, a jury in Guantanamo Bay convicted Salim Hamdan of a war crime. But according to a new book, the government might have tur … more…
Jury Dismisses Most Serious Charges Against Hamdan
The U.S.'s first war crimes trial since World War II has ended in a split verdict. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who acknowledged he chauffeure … more…
Who Gets to Leave Gitmo? Not Always the Innocent
Of all the reports that have come out of Salim Hamdan's trial for providing support for terrorism, the first U.S. war crimes hearing … more…
Talking With Jane Mayer
As much as any other reporter, The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer has helped expose the post-9/11 system of detention, rendition and abuse o … more…
Senate Investigation Reveals Frank 2002 Discussion of Gitmo Interrogation
For 18 months, the Senate Armed Services Committee has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into the military's adoption of n … more…
January 26, 2010
Bush Pentagon Hired Conspiracy Theorist As Al Qaeda Specialist Justin Elliot, TPM Muckraker, January 26, 2010
January 08, 2010
U.S. Was More Focused on al-Qaida’s Plans Abroad Karen DeYoung and Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post, January 08, 2010
November 09, 2009
Officials: U.S. Aware of Shooter’s Efforts to Contact Al-Qaida Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole and Brian Ross, ABC News, November 09, 2009
August 12, 2009
Interrogator: ‘Intolerance’ Led to Torture Jeff Stein, CQ Politics, August 12, 2009
July 13, 2009
CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal ($), July 13, 2009
May 18, 2009
Cheney Said Gitmo Detainees Revealed Iraq-al Qaida Link Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy, May 18, 2009
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