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Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders

BAGHDAD — An unpublished, 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure.

The history, the first official account of its kind, is circulating in draft form here and in Washington among a tight circle of technical … more…

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The Candidates’ Positions on Private Security Contractors

Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have both criticized private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, while they've also … more…

SEC: Bomb Detector—Bought by Military—Was Front for Scam

Last year, while working at The Dallas Morning News, a colleague and I wrote a story about a purported explosives detection device called … more…

The Psychologists Behind Abusive Interrogations of Detainees

This morning The New York Times' Scott Shane reports that back in late 2002 trainers at Guantanamo Bay "based an entire interrogation … more…

New Report Documents Detainee Treatment in Gitmo and Iraq

For the administration's detainee policy, it's been two weeks full of revelations and upheavals.

Last week, the Supreme Court upset the … 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 new … more…

Chief Gitmo Judge Contradicts Pentagon on Replacement of Judge

Yesterday we noted that a judge for the Guantanamo Bay military commissions who had repeatedly ruled against prosecutors had been … more…

Prosecutors Push for Earlier Gitmo Trials

They said it couldn't be done. Only last month, The Washington Post ran a front page story on how "U.S. officials" now reluctantly … more…

Gitmo Judge Gets the Axe One Month After Ruling Against Gov’t

Early last month, Col. Peter E. Brownback III, the judge presiding over the case of Omar Ahmed Khadr at Guantanamo Bay, put his foot … more…

The Coalition of the ‘Willing to Be Paid’

The U.S. military paid at least $134.8 million to allies in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, according to a recent audit (pdf) by the Pentagon's … more…

Translators Having Trouble Accessing Gitmo

Lawyers representing Gitmo detainees have long faced Pentagon-imposed obstacles to their work. Now, some of the lawyers are being stymied … more…