The US Supreme Court ruled recently on the government’s use of the state secrets doctrine in an opinion that will make it easier for intelligence agencies to evade accountability in future individual rights cases. In US v. Zubaydah, government torture policy and state...
History repeats itself, Marx famously warned, first as tragedy and then as farce. In the case of U.S. torture psychologists, the "tragedy” occurred half a century ago when CIA-funded psychological research on electroshock treatment, sensory deprivation, and the like...
During the recent Republican presidential primary debates, three candidates said without hesitation that they would authorize waterboarding as an interrogation technique if elected president. In their recent memoirs, both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney admitted with...
