Torture

2009

• Planet Cheney and the Secret Government

  The Rachel Maddow Show : Dick Cheney

  The Nation's Chris Hayes calls for a wide-ranging investigation of torture policies similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s.

• Cheney Continues to Defend False Truths

  Countdown

  The Nation's Jeremy Scahill criticizes the former vice president's recent defense of torture and the media outlets who let him get away with it.

• Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze

  Alfred W. McCoy : Barack Obama Administration

  With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington and the arrival of Barack Obama, it may just be back to the future when it comes to torture policy.

• Inquisitions

  Eduardo Galeano : History

  From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.

• The CIA's Truth Problem

  Tim Weiner : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Will the CIA tell Congress the truth? Would Congress listen if it did?

• Torture and Truth

  Jonathan Schell : Iraq War

  The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.

• Ex-Interrogator: Torture Doesn't Work

  Brave New Films

  Former military interrogator Matthew Alexander refutes Dick Cheney's claim that torture saved American lives.

• Obama's Tortured Turn

  The Editors

  Obama's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainee abuse is unsettling and wrongheaded.

• Torturer in Chief: Pelosi Over Cheney?

  GRIT TV : Dick Cheney

  The question of torture has been drowned out by the Washington media-driven drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when.

• The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia

  Noam Chomsky

  Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon, not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.

• The Fabrications of Jay S. Bybee

  Martin Garbus : Law & Justice

  The author of the infamous memo has been invited to testify before a Senate committee. This is the beginning of the unraveling.

• GOP Torture Blame Game: Target Pelosi

  The Ed Show

  The Nation's John Nichols encourages Nancy Pelosi to call the bluff of her right wing critics by testifying under oath on torture.

• Time for the Reckoning?

  David Cole : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Momentum is growing for some form of official accountability on the Bush administration's practice of torture, surveillance and detentions without trial.

• David Broder: Eyes Wide Shut

  Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism

  When it comes to prosecuting Bush-era crimes, the media's inside establishment would prefer to just keep on walking.

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  Why the New Torture Defense Is a Good Offense

  Ari Melber : George W. Bush Administration

  The torture immunity lobby has a new argument--public support inoculates war criminals. With that mindset, we are likely to get these policies wrong again in the future.

• Better Living Through Torture

  Katha Pollitt

  I should have been a member of the torture creative class, because now I would be having a good life.

• GOP: Blame Dems for Torture Too

  Countdown

  The Nation's Chris Hayes points out the absurdity of the double-sided GOP response to the release of Bush-era torture memos.