Rights Groups Slam Bid to Suppress Abuse Pics
President Barack Obama's decision Wednesday to object to the planned release of photos showing abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan has drawn quiet praise from the military and some in Congress – and outspoken scorn from human rights advocates, a...
Judge Condemns ‘Mosaic’ of Gitmo Intel and Unreliable Witnesses
‘Impolite’ Questions for Gen. Myers
Senate Panel Probes Legality of Torture Memos
"An ethical train wreck" was the phrase used by one witness to describe the legal reasoning behind the Justice Department's recently released memos justifying the use of waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation techniques." The...
Back to Military Commissions?
Human rights advocates and legal scholars fear that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama may resurrect the military commissions designed by his predecessor to try Guantánamo detainees after Obama's 120-day moratorium on proceedings expires on May 20. That...
Secretary Doomsday and the Empathy Gap
Unwieldy Terror Watchlist Hits a Million
Hundreds of thousands of people are being wrongly identified because of the government's wasteful and inefficient management of the nation's one million-strong terrorist watchlist, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The organization cited a recent...
Psychologists Under Fire for Role in Interrogations
A leading human rights organization is charging that an American Psychological Association (APA) task force formed to advise the U.S. military on prisoner interrogations was "stacked with Defense Department and [George W.] Bush Administration officials" and...
