
I Spent 20 Years Covering America's Secretive Detention Regime. Torture Was Always the Subtext.
The U.S. naval base in Cuba was like another planet, where only the camaraderie of other journalists kept me tied to reality.
The U.S. naval base in Cuba was like another planet, where only the camaraderie of other journalists kept me tied to reality.
The sanitized summaries of CIA cables provided by the prosecution leave out vital details that journalists and others have obtained using FOIA.
“Don’t be fooled by ‘enhanced interrogation,’” torture architect James Mitchell told the court. “You are doing coercive physical techniques.”
“I suspected from the beginning that I would end up here,” psychologist James Mitchell told a Guantánamo Bay courtroom.
The word haunting the austere courtroom was torture. Torture not only tormented the perpetrators; it has delayed justice for the families of 9/11 victims.
Snowden Archive
Internal NSA reports reveal the exploits of a secret commando unit, new details of a joint venture with the CIA, and spying against Middle Eastern satellite internet.
The Threat Within
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have their own anti-terrorism laws.
Snowden Archive
Highlights from the seventh release of the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday.
A cultural adviser for the U.S. military at Guantánamo made much of the accommodations for Muslim diets, adding that hunger strikers were “faking” their fasts.
Snowden Archive
The documents, from an internal NSA newsletter, also reveal problems recruiting Arabic speakers to the spy agency and evidence of election fraud in Egypt.