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The first clear warning sign came in January 2005 during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Reinterpreting the meaning of a U.S. reservation to the Convention Against Torture, Gonzales claimed that the treaty’s prohibition of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment?...
Responsibility for this shameful policy did not stop with Gonzales. When Senator John McCain introduced legislation to reverse the Gonzales position, President George Bush threatened to veto it, and Vice President Dick Cheney lobbied to permit the CIA to continue using CID.
The journalist Mark Danner has described systematic torture in American detention facilities as a scandal that “survived its disclosure.” Danner’s elegant phrase points to the total failure of hierarchal accountability in the wake of revelations of abuse, and it suggests our...
The planning for operations was at an "early stage" according to a Justice Department official, who said "Don't clear the front page for it," but [the case is] "pretty significant." When asked if there was a connection to Toledo charity KindHearts, that had its assets frozen by the Treasury...
Wilson served with Condoleezza Rice on George H.W. Bush's National Security Council and plans to rewrite the cold war-era law controlling domestic eavesdropping in collaboration with House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, who showed his willingness to oversee the Executive Branch last week by sending 51 questions about...