Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2009. Certainly not those who ran our shadowy network of secret prisons, nor their superiors who created it.
Christopher Ketcham, CounterPunch. November 5, 2009. The whistleblowing agent depicted in "Syriana," Bob Baer is back in Silverton, Colo, where "people who messed up in some other life and come here to be nobody."
Gina Doggett, Agence France Presse. November 4, 2009. The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
Muriel Kane, Raw Story. October 28, 2009. Human rights lawyer John Sifton says the CIA tried to prevent detainees from dying, "which might sound humanitarian, but was kind of sickening."
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: World. October 5, 2009. The "paper of record" also complains that Robert Greenwald's film has no 'sympathy' for pro-war views.
Ray McGovern, AlterNet. September 21, 2009. Seven former CIA directors are asking Obama to "reverse Attorney General Holder's August 24 decision to re-open the criminal investigation of CIA interrogations."
Jasmin Ramsey, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 16, 2009. In his late summer media blitz, former VP Dick Cheney reminded us just how callous, corrupt, and creepy he can be.
Andy Worthington, Comment Is Free. September 11, 2009. In Guantánamo, 225 men remain imprisoned, most of them never charged, ostensibly for some connection with these attacks.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 3, 2009. And to think, this disgraced former Bush administration official struggled to find a job in the legal profession. Imagine that.
Christopher Hayes, The Nation. September 2, 2009. From CIA assassinations to domestic spying, a sweeping investigation of government crimes is not only possible -- it has been done before.
Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org. August 26, 2009. In a craven attempt to keep CIA abuses under wraps, nine senators wrote to the attorney general warning him not to appoint a special prosecutor.
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. August 20, 2009. The dark history behind the explosive revelations of Blackwater's role in the CIA's assassination program.
Derrick Crowe, August 19, 2009. "Rethink Afghanistan, Part Six: Security" includes CIA officers, regional experts, and Afghan leaders who explain how U.S. war policies in Afghanistan undermine American security.
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. The use of physicians at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has forced medical professionals to violate their ethics codes, according to findings published in a medical journal.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 20, 2009. As Cheney told ABC News: "I was aware of the program ... and involved in helping get the process cleared ... I supported it."
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. July 18, 2009. Cheney seems to fear that if our system of justice works, he could be in for some serious, uncommuted jail time.
Aram Roston, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2009. Though the agency denies it, sources say one supervisor bragged about using the insects on the head of a prisoner.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. July 16, 2009. While the current focus is on Dick Cheney's role concealing these nefarious missions, the U.S. has long had a bipartisan assassination policy.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. July 14, 2009. Anti-torture lawyers argue that any investigation must target the whole torture system, including its legal architects and those who gave the orders.
