Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. July 23, 2008. More than 20 years after being tortured into giving confessions by Chicago police officers, dozens of black men remain behind bars.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 22, 2008. A 5 to 4 ruling in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legitimizes the president's right to indefinitely imprison "enemy combatants."
Leonard Doyle, Independent UK. July 21, 2008. Salim Hamdan, the suicidal and delusional prisoner who was once a chauffeur for Osama bin Laden, is being tried by Military Tribunal.
Eric Umansky, ProPublica. July 17, 2008. The investigative reporter who connected the dots on detention, rendition and torture, discusses her new book, The Dark Side.
Brad, Sadly No! AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 16, 2008. The pardons recommended in Stuart Taylor Jr.'s Newsweek article are absurd and, you know, illegal.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 16, 2008. A closer look at the first Guantánamo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.
Laura Carlsen, Huffington Post. July 14, 2008. Videos depicting torture-training sessions with Mexican police raise alarm over human rights under Calderon's US-assisted war on crime.
Frank Rich, The New York Times. July 14, 2008. Top Bush hands are starting to get sweaty about where they left their fingerprints on U.S. torture policies.
Naomi Wolf, Huffington Post. July 7, 2008. How Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay basically turned into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 1, 2008. Gen. Richard Myers aborted legal inquiry into brutal interrogation techniques.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 1, 2008. Candidate may have accused president of torture, or pledged to torture. No one cares.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 30, 2008. If you listen to Bush's legal advisors, questions about the limits of his authority might not be hypothetical anymore.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. June 27, 2008. A muscular group of religious, military and former government officials has created an anti-torture declaration. The names may surprise you.
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.
Anand Gopal, Christian Science Monitor. June 18, 2008. An eight-month investigation by McClatchy newspapers finds the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned, and routinely tortured, scores of terrorist suspects.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. June 13, 2008. After a six-year battle that cut to the Constitution's core, a look at how advocates for Gitmo prisoners won a major victory against Bush.
The NationJune 8, 2008. In a letter to Congress, human rights leaders urge Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stop funding torture in the so-called "war on terror."
Deirdre Jurand, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 2, 2008. Binyam Mohamed was detained in Pakistan and allegedly tortured at the behest of the Bush Administration. He could be executed if convicted.
