Bush’s Lawyer Shopping for Torture
By Jason Leopold In 2005, after pushing out the Justice Department lawyer who had overturned President George W. Bush’s claimed authority to abuse “war on terror” prisoners, his administration...
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By Jason Leopold In 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales bent to demands from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to push through new legal opinions sanctioning harsh...
View ArticleThe CIA’s Shifting Reasons For Withholding Documents in the Torture Tapes Case
By Jason Leopold Last month, the CIA told a federal court judge it could not abide by a court order and turn over detailed documents about the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes because it...
View ArticleObama Furthering Cover-Up of Torture By Withholding Abuse Photos
By Jason Leopold By opposing the release of photographic and other evidence of prisoner abuse, President Barack Obama is furthering a long-running cover-up that has protected senior Bush administration...
View ArticleNewly Released CIA Documents Describe Systematic Torture of Detainees
The CIA released still-highly redacted documents Monday in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody. The documents were released as part of an American...
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Saddam Hussein’s FBI Interviews Revealed
FBI special agents carried out 20 formal interviews and at least five “casual conversations” with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his capture by U.S. troops in December 2003, according to...
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Pentagon Reclassifying Documents Already in the Public Domain
From George Washington University’s National Security Archive: Pentagon classification authorities are treating classified historical documents as if they contain today’s secrets, rather than...
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Humanizing Fayiz al-Kandari: A Guantanamo Prisoner Wrongfully Detained
Editor’s note: This report was originally published at The Political Carnival and written by the blogger GottaLaff, who has been instrumental in exposing the systematic torture and abuse of Fayiz...
View ArticleFormer CJR Reporter Paul McLeary Has A History Of Making Stuff Up
This is really old news, but it’s worth documenting just so it becomes a part of the public record. Paul McLeary, a former reporter for Columbia Journalism Review, has made many errors in his career as...
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News Junkie Post Editor In Chief Gilbert Mercier Suffers Massive Heart Attack
News Junkie Editor in Chief Gilbert Mercier On February 21, 2012, Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post Editor in Chief, suffered an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.. a myocardial infarction… a massive heart...
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