News feed

/ Russell Spivak / Lawfare / Summary: Qassim Filings on Habeas Claim
/ Yuichiro Kakutani / Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University, NY) / Professor Details Career Defending CIA Blacksite and Guantanamo Detainees, Believes Politicians Who Support Torture Can Redeem Themselves
/ Ann E. Marimow and Missy Ryan / Washington Post / Appeals court considers ‘how long is too long’ in challenge to Guantanamo detention
/ David Smith / Guardian (U.K.) / Torture allegations dog Gina Haspel as she is poised to be first female CIA head
/ Patrick G. Eddington / The Hill / Revisiting America’s torture legacy
/ Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali / Reuters / Exclusive: U.S. advancing toward first Guantanamo repatriation under Trump
/ Editorial / Washington Post / Gina Haspel owes us all some answers
/ Robert James Parsons / TruthOut / A Torturer at the Top: Why Gina Haspel's CIA Appointment Will Spur Torture at All Levels
/ William Rivers Pitt / TruthOut / Fifteen Years After Iraq Invasion, Torture Has a New Address
/ Reuters / Key Senator Wants Documents on Trump CIA Nominee's 'Black Site' Record
/ Associated Press / ProPublica Leads Media Into Correction of Murky CIA Story
/ Marcy Wheeler / Huffington Post / Democrats’ Surrender On Torture Is Nearly Complete
/ Andy Worthington / In Guantánamo Habeas Corpus Case, Lawyers Insist That Trump’s Stated Intention of Not Releasing Any Prisoners Renders Their Imprisonment “Perpetual” — and Illegal
/ Peter Van Buren / The American Conservative / Gina Haspel: As If Nuremberg Never Happened
/ Jeff Stein / Newsweek / Torture, the CIA and Hulu’s 'The Looming Tower': An Interview With Ali Soufan
/ Ali Soufan / Atlantic Online / Telling the Truth About CIA Torture
/ John Kiriakou / Washington Post / I went to prison for disclosing the CIA’s torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up.
/ Winnie Atieno / Nairobi News (Kenya) / Kenyan prisoner in Guantanamo Bay hopeful of release
/ C. Mitchell Shaw / New American / Trump’s CIA Pick Should be Charged as a War Criminal for Practicing Torture
/ Sarah Grant / Lawfare / A Preview of Oral Argument in Al-Alwi v. Trump
more