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.
Sheri Fink, ProPublica. April 25, 2009. Perhaps the most chilling aspect is that medical professionals apparently conducted a form of research on the detainees, without their consent.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 24, 2009. The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency Warned that the interrogation program would produce "unreliable information."
Stephen Webster, Diane Sweet, Raw Story. April 22, 2009. Sen. Carl Levin recommends AG Eric Holder appoint a 'distinguished individual or individuals' to 'establish accountability of high-level officials.'
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2009. Aside from the sheer number of times KSM and Abu Zubaydah were waterboarded, the CIA far exceeded the guidelines outlined in the torture memos.
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.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet. January 24, 2009. With the Army Field Manual likely to become the new standard for interrogation, the truth behind it is more crucial than ever.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet. January 7, 2009. Buried in Appendix M of the Army Field Manual, the Guantanamo virus is spreading, and eradicating it will require all of us to spread the word.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. June 23, 2008. As Congress pieces together the White House torture program, former Army General Antonio Taguba condemns Bush's "systematic regime of torture."
Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent. June 19, 2008. At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week, answers about the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogations" finally came to light.