Torture Accountability News

The articles below are all sources for profiles in the archives. Once the archives are complete, we will focus on providing up to date news on accountability efforts.

• February 22, 2010: The Torture Memo Author You've Never Heard Of
  by Zachary Roth | Talking Points Memo
In article: Jennifer Hardy


• September 29, 2009: Ex-Bush officials face lawsuits over their actions
  by Mark Sherman | AP
In article: John Yoo, John Ashcroft, Scott Muller


• September 6, 2009: Addington’s Direct Involvement in the Torture Memos
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: Jay Bybee, John Yoo, David Addington, Steven Bradbury


• August 29, 2009: Expanding the Investigation into SERE Torture
  by Valtin (Michael Otterman) | AmericanTorture.com
In article: James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen


• August 25, 2009: “We Will Provide, at a Later Date, an Opinion That Explains the Basis for this Conclusion”
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: John Rizzo


• August 25, 2009: Was John Yoo Free-Lancing When He Approved the “Legal Principles”?
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: John Yoo, Patrick Philbin


• August 25, 2009: Ashcroft versus CIA
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: Richard Cheney, George Tenet, Scott Muller


• August 25, 2009: Those Undated “Legal Principles”
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: John Yoo, Patrick Philbin, Scott Muller


• August 25, 2009: The CIA's post-torture profits
  by Tim Shorrock | The Guardian
In article: Richard Cheney, George Tenet, George Bush


• August 25, 2009: Expose (Part 2): Roger Aldrich, the Al Qaeda Manual, and the Origins of Mitchell-Jessen
  by Jeff Kaye | American Torture
In article: James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen


• August 25, 2009: Expose (Part 2) : Expanding the Investigation into SERE Torture
  by Jeff Kaye | American Torture
In article: James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen


• August 25, 2009: Expose (Part 1): NYT Misses Full Story on Mitchell-Jessen
  by Jeff Kaye | American Torture
In article: Richard Cheney, James Mitchell, George Bush, Bruce Jessen


• August 25, 2009: NYT Misses Full Story on Mitchell-Jessen (Expose Part 1)
  by Valtin (Michael Otterman) | AmericanTorture.com
In article: Richard Cheney, Cofer Black, James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen


• August 25, 2009: Roger Aldrich, the Al-Qaeda Manual, and the Origins of Mitchell-Jessen
  by Aldin (Michael Otterman | AmericanTorture.com
In article: Richard Cheney, James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen


• August 24, 2009: Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, Or the Geneva Convention
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: Steven Bradbury


• August 24, 2009: Cheney’s Cherry-Pick
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: Richard Cheney


• May 22, 2009: Did Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Begin After May 28, 2002?
  by Marcy Wheeler | Fire Dog Lake
In article: John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, John Rizzo, George Tenet, Michael Chertoff, James Mitchell, Condoleeza Rice


• May 20, 2009: Did White House OK Earliest Detainee Abuse?
  by Ari Shapiro | NPR.com / All Things Considered
In article: Alberto Gonzales, James Mitchell


• May 20, 2009: James Mitchell Asked, ‘Please Can I Torture Abu Zubaydah?’; Did Alberto Gonzales Say Yes?
  by Spencer Ackerman | The Washington Independent
In article: Alberto Gonzales, James Mitchell


• May 18, 2009: How Torture Trapped Colin Powell
  by Ray McGovern | consortiumnews.com



• May 18, 2009: The 13 People Who Made Torture Possible
  by Marcy Wheeler | salon.com
In article: Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Richard Cheney, David Addington, William Haynes, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, John Rizzo, George Tenet, James Mitchell, George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Steven Bradbury


• May 15, 2009: Dick Cheney, Torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame
  by Emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler) | Firedoglake
In article: Richard Cheney, Douglas Feith, George Tenet


• May 12, 2009: The Torture Business: CIA Outsourced Development of Interrogation Plan
  by John Goetz and Britta Sandberg, transl. Christopher Sultan | der Spiegel Online
In article: James Mitchell


• April 29, 2009: LDS lawyers, psychologists had a hand in torture policies
  by David R. Irvine, Brig. Gen., ret. | Salt Lake Tribune
In article: Timothy Flanigan, James Mitchell


• April 22, 2009: Rumsfeld: Architect of Torture
  by Mike Madden | salon.com
In article: William Haynes, Donald Rumsfeld


• April 20, 2009: The Chicago Way
  by Leonard Stern | Ottawa Citizen
In article: Cofer Black


• January 5, 2009: Could Gitmo Get Worse? The Policy Implications of Executive Accountability
  by Shahid Buttar | Huffington Post
In article: Richard Cheney, David Addington, William Haynes, Donald Rumsfeld


• December 31, 2008: Gonzales Defends Role in Antiterror Policies
  by Evan Perez | Wall Street Journal
In article: Alberto Gonzales


• December 11, 2008: U.S. Senate report ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib abuse
  by David Morgan | Reuters
In article: Donald Rumsfeld


• October 17, 2008: Cofer Black, out of the shadows
  by Kevin McMurray | Men's Journal
In article: Cofer Black


• August 13, 2008: The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program
  by Jane Mayer | The New Yorker
In article: Richard Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, George Tenet


• June 18, 2008: Secret Tactics Dictated Treatment of Detainees
  by Tom Lasseter | Seattle Times
In article: John Yoo, Richard Cheney, David Addington, William Haynes, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales


• June 17, 2008: Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross
  by Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
In article: Diane Beaver


• May 1, 2008: The Green Light
  by Philippe Sands | Vanity Fair
In article: David Addington, William Haynes, Alberto Gonzales, Diane Beaver, Michael Dunlavey


• December 16, 2007: CIA Torture and Other War Crimes
  by Philip Giraldi | Huffington Post
In article: James Pavitt


• November 28, 2007: Romney refuses to classify waterboarding as torture
  by CNN | Youtube
In article: Cofer Black


• July 17, 2007: Rohrschach and Awe
  by Katherine Eban | Vanity Fair.com
In article: George Tenet, James Mitchell


• June 26, 2007: The CIA's Torture Teachers
  by Mark Benjamin | Global Research
In article: Daniel Dell'Orto, James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen


• June 25, 2007: Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
  by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker | Washington Post
In article: Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Richard Cheney, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales


• June 24, 2007: A Different Understanding With the President
  by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker | Washington Post
In article: John Yoo, Richard Cheney, David Addington, Timothy Flanigan, Alberto Gonzales, George Bush


• June 21, 2007: The CIA's Torture Teachers
  by Mark Benjamin | salon.com
In article: George Tenet, Michael Dunlavey, Cofer Black, James Mitchell


• May 23, 2007: Jeremy Scahill responds to Blackwater CEO
  by Amy Goodman | Democracy Now
In article: Cofer Black


• November 25, 2006: Karpinski: Rumsfeld Approved Coercive Interrogation Methods
  by Jack Balkin | Balkinization
In article: Donald Rumsfeld


• October 26, 2006: Can 20th Hijacker Ever Stand Trial? Aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo may prevent his prosecution
  by Bill Dedman | MSNBC.com
In article: Geoffrey Miller


• May 5, 2006: The Conservative Case for President Bush's Exercise of Presidential Powers: Why It Fails to Convince, and Ignores Mainstream View on the Constitution
  by John W. Dean | FindLaw.com
In article: John Yoo, Patrick Philbin


• April 19, 2006: Top Officer Ordered to Testify on Abuse: Use of Dogs to Scare Detainees at Issue
  by Josh White | Washington Post
In article: Geoffrey Miller


• February 27, 2006: The Memo: How an Internal Effort to Ban the Abuse and Torture of Detainees Was Thwarted
  by Jane Mayer | The New Yorker
In article: William Haynes


• February 20, 2006: How the Pentagon Came to Adopt Criminal Abuse as Official Policy
  by Marty Lederman | Balkinization
In article: William Haynes, Donald Rumsfeld, Geoffrey Miller


• January 22, 2006: So Much for the President's Assent to the McCain Amendment
  by Marty Lederman | Balkinization
In article: George Bush


• December 23, 2005: A Junior Aide Had a Big Role in Terror Policy
  by Tim Golden | New York Times
In article: John Yoo


• December 18, 2005: Pushing the Limits of Wartime Powers
  by Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer | Washington Post
In article: Richard Cheney, George Tenet, George Bush


• November 1, 2005: Battle Royale at the Pentagon: David Addington v. Common Article 3
  by Marty Lederman | Balkinization
In article: David Addington, William Haynes, Stephen Cambone


• July 22, 2005: President Tells Congress to Take a Hike on Detention and Interrogation
  by Marty Lederman | Balkinization
In article: George Bush


• June 14, 2005: GTMO: Where was the law? Whither the UCMJ?
  by Marty Lederer | Balkinization
In article: Diane Beaver, Michael Dunlavey


• January 5, 2005: Gonzales Helped Set the Course for Detainees: Justice Nominee's Hearings Likely to Focus on Interrogation Policies
  by R. Jeffrey Smith and Dan Eggen | Washington Post
In article: David Addington, Timothy Flanigan, Alberto Gonzales


• October 27, 2004: Ex-CIA Official Defends Detention Policies
  by Dana Priest | Washington Post
In article: James Pavitt


• June 3, 2004: Tenet's remarks to CIA upon his resignation
  by AP | Associated Press
In article: George Tenet