Andy Worthington, AlterNet. September 9, 2009. A Spanish newspaper reports that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against attorneys who implemented torture at Guantánamo.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2009. In a Wall Street Journal Op-ed, Yoo accuses inspectors general of engaging in the "politics of recrimination." But he doesn't deny their accusations.
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.
Agence France Presse June 14, 2009. Lawyers for Padilla, who was arrested in 2002 for supposed plans to unleash a "dirty bomb," hold Yoo, a former OLC lawyer, responsible for his torture.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 12, 2009. Yoo joins an 'increasingly rightward-tilting lineup' that includes former Senator Rick Santorum and torture fan Michael Smerconish.
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.'
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."
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. April 26, 2009. If the torture of the first "high-value detainee" was authorized by the Bybee memos, who ordered his torture 18 weeks before they were written?
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.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. April 22, 2009. "America is better than this. Ask Attorney General Holder to appoint an independent special prosecutor to investigate these abuses."
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.
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 20, 2009. Yoo has no regrets about the controversial legal opinions he wrote for the White House, giving Bush unfettered power in the aftermath of 9/11.
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."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 9, 2009. Obama's DOJ lawyers are trying to get a judge to toss out a lawsuit by the so-called "enemy combatant," who was tortured under Bush.
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.
Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Huffington Post. February 2, 2009. Naysayers warn against reckoning with the sins of the past, calling it partisan payback. I could not disagree more.
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.
