Andy Worthington, CounterPunch. October 5, 2009. Like torture victims groomed for show trials throughout the centuries, Fouad al-Rabiah made up false stories under torture in the hopes of one day leaving Guantanamo.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. June 16, 2009. Zubaydah said he endured “months of suffering and torture” on the false premise that he was an al-Qaeda leader.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 8, 2008. This is an ex post facto conviction based on the Military Commissions Act of 2006. And what a commission it was.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 6, 2008. Hamdan was acquitted on the more serious charge of conspiracy, which is a blow to the Bush Administration.
Mark Danner, Tomdispatch.com. March 26, 2008. America's enemies have used an evangelical, redemptive regime, hell-bent on remaking a fallen world, to lay the seeds of their success.
Jordan Michael Smith, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. March 25, 2008. According to Bob Woodward, when Gen Tommy Franks received the top-secret message asking for an Iraq war plan within a week, he was incredulous.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Media and Technology. March 3, 2008. "Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. January 28, 2008. George Piro, who interrogated Saddam for 7 months, says the Saddam considered Bin Laden "a threat to him and his regime."
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. January 6, 2008. In an exclusive "60 Minutes" interview Musharraf refused to acknowledge any security lapses by his government in protecting Bhutto.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. December 24, 2007. While Musharraf was cracking jokes at Bush's expense he was stealing billions of American taxpayer dollars from the clueless Texas clod.
Faiz Shakir, AlterNet: Video. November 1, 2007. Faiz Shakir: With his anemic presidency on the rocks, Bush has resorted to battling with bloggers and war protesters for relevance.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 7, 2007. Al Qaeda is resurgent. Osama bin Laden and his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have not been captured. Suicide bombings have been used with increasing frequency and 750 civilians have been killed in 2007.
GottaLaff, AlterNet: PEEK. September 10, 2007. GottaLaff: Using the word "impotent" doesn't seem to be the wisest way to insult any man, let alone the lunatic who already killed 3,000 Americans.
Lucy Komisar, IPS News. April 5, 2007. How the Bush family's private connection to a dirty offshore bank is the only link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.