David Swanson, After Downing Street AlterNet: PEEK. June 29, 2009. People like John Rizzo and John Fredman should not be working for our government. They should be impeached. They should be prosecuted.
Sheri Fink, ProPublica. May 29, 2009. The still-secret cables are among some 550 interrogation-related cables sent from CIA field stations to CIA headquarters in 2002.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. May 6, 2009. Federal investigators say the torture memo authors only committed 'serious lapses of judgment,' not crimes. Critics say that's 'outrageous.'
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. May 1, 2009. Obama's intent to immunize those who broke the law violates his constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
David Murdock, American News Project AlterNet: Video. April 29, 2009. How did Jay Bybee breeze through a confirmation hearing for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court in February 2003?
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 28, 2009. Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure.
Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org. April 27, 2009. Ignoring the 1983 case is just one of the flagrant violations committed by Bush lawyers who crafted the newly released "torture memos."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 24, 2009. Amid citizen outrage and news that torture was used to extract a link between Iraq and al Qaeda, Eric Holder won't say if he intends to prosecute.
David Swanson, After Downing Street. April 21, 2009. A push for accountability is a deterrent to future crimes, even if it fails. But remember: they won't tell us we're succeeding until we already have.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2009. While Democratic leaders stay silent on Obama's refusal to hold torturers accountable, activists call on Congress to impeach.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet. April 17, 2009. The memo's gross distortion of psychological research makes it hard to imagine they were used in "good faith" as the Obama administration says.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 17, 2009. Slamming prisoners into walls, locking them in boxes with insects; these memos are the smoking gun for the sadistic crimes of the Bush administration.
The American Civil Liberties Union AlterNet: Rights and LibertiesApril 16, 2009. "The documents (are) further confirmation that the Office of Legal Counsel distorted the law to support the Bush administration's torture."
Marjorie Cohn, San Francisco Chronicle. April 10, 2009. They can use "universal jurisdiction," often used to prosecute foreign nationals for crimes that shock the conscience of the global community.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 30, 2009. The six targets named include former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who could face "immediate arrest" upon entering Spain.
Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org. March 12, 2009. ACLU: "This new information underscores the need for full and immediate disclosure of the CIA's illegal interrogation methods."
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. February 24, 2009. We need a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute criminal lawyers like John Yoo who gave Bush et al legal cover.
Chisun Lee, ProPublica. January 30, 2009. An interactive guide to the Bush administration's classified legal opinions in the 'War on Terror' reveals how much we still don't know.
Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones. September 17, 2008. Forget Roberts or Alito for a minute; in eight years, Bush installed more than 300 federal judges. Here are a few to keep a close eye on.
