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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

A Spanish newspaper reports that Judge Baltasar GarzÃ³n is pressing ahead with a case against attorneys who implemented torture at GuantÃ¡namo.

Anti-torture lawyers argue that any investigation must target the whole torture system, including its legal architects and those who gave the orders.

The story of this slick oil company's romance with the government has recently taken a crude twist.

People like John Rizzo and John Fredman should not be working for our government. They should be impeached. They should be prosecuted.

Capt. John Murphy led the prosecution of Salim Hamdan and is helping prosecute Omar Khadr, who was just 15 years old when he was captured.

How did Jay Bybee breeze through a confirmation hearing for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court in February 2003?

They can use "universal jurisdiction," often used to prosecute foreign nationals for crimes that shock the conscience of the global community.

As Congress pieces together the White House torture program, former Army General Antonio Taguba condemns Bush's "systematic regime of torture."

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week, answers about the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogations" finally came to light.

General Richard Myers was duped by Donald Rumsfeld, who waved through torture techniques pushed by Alberto Gonzales and others.

General Counsel William Haynes "returns to private life" after being quoted saying: "We can't have acquittals. We've got to have convictions."