Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. June 1, 2009. The recent haggling over Guantanamo is such classic Democratic Party politics, it's almost laughable. Almost, except that it's, you know, revolting.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 11, 2009. The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 6, 2009. In cases involving torture, rendition and Bush's 'lost' emails, Obama lawyers are making the same arguments as Bush's.
Mohamed Farag Bashmilah, Huffington Post. February 20, 2009. The American public needs to face what has happened to those of us who were disappeared and mistreated in the name of their national security.
Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. February 16, 2009. The U.S. government should disclose the names, fate, and whereabouts of all persons rendered by the CIA since 2001.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 14, 2008. New documents obtained by the ACLU state that torture of prisoners in US custody abroad was "widespread and systemic."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 27, 2007. It is impossible to tell the difference between the dark stories emerging from Bush's "extraordinary renditions" policy and the Hollywood fiction about horrible torture.
Lou Dubose, The Washington Spectator. July 7, 2007. In 2001, 19-year-old Murat Kurnaz was an innocent man caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Accused of being a terrorist, he spent five years in Guantanamo before being released -- now he's telling his story.
Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. January 29, 2007. Stephen Harper, Canada's conservative prime minister, campaigned on strengthening ties with the Bush administration. But the love affair has ended over the American "rendition" of a Canadian citizen to Syria.
