Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Andy Worthington Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. Protestors rallied across the country [...]

versión en español abajo Will You Love Every Future President? by David Swanson October 15, 2009 Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II, got a [...]

Torturas, programas secretos e ilegalidades, forman parte indisoluble de sus “tareas” por Marta G. Sojo (inter@bohemia.co.cu) 16 de octubre de 2009 Hay comentarios históricos de que nunca la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) olió bien. No pocos se preguntan por qué tanta “novedosa” sorpresa entre algunos personajes, si es evidente que las prácticas de esta entidad nunca han [...]

por Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy 22 de septiembre, 2009 Si el famoso poeta italiano Dante Alighieri hubiera vivido en nuestros tiempos, no hubiera dudado un ápice en incluir a la Central de Inteligencia de los Estados Unidos en cualquiera de sus círculos del Infierno. Dentro de éstos hubieran tenido cabida, sin lugar a dudas, todos los directores [...]

by Ray McGovern September 19, 2009 For the CIA supervisors and operatives responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost; that is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law – and if they don’t fall victim to brazen intimidation. Unable to prevent Holder [...]

Should Judge Laurence Silberman have recused himself from a case involving alleged torture for which his buddies were ultimately responsible? by Jeremy Scahill September 14, 2009 On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications Titan unit, [...]

by Robert Parry September 8, 2009 Lost amid the attention given George W. Bush’s “war on terror” torture policies was the CIA’s cryptic admission that it also engaged in interrogation abuses during Ronald Reagan’s anti-leftist wars in Central America, another era of torture and extra-judicial killings. The 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report, released last month, referenced as “background” [...]

by Mark Mazzetti September 1, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to make public hundreds of pages of internal documents about the agency’s defunct detention and interrogation program, saying such disclosures would jeopardize national security by revealing classified intelligence sources and operations. The C.I.A.’s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in a declaration [...]

A response to Cheney’s pro-torture media blitz. by Jeremy Scahill August 31, 2009 First of all, Dick Cheney has all sorts of nerve purporting to speak in defense of the CIA. His administration outed a senior CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in retaliation for her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, exercising his freedom of speech (because he exercised it to [...]

by Scott Horton August 25, 2009 You can catch my review of the CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s report on BBC’s “The World” or on MSNBC’s Live with Carlos Watson today at 11 ET. Here, in the meantime, are seven points that I draw from it: 1.The worst is yet to come. Yesterday the CIA released a fresh [...]