The Lippard Blog

It was interesting to go back through the old posts on this blog about the CIA torture program in light of the new film, The Report, which ...

"It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know t...

So much for change. ABC News : The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in ...

The Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico last year with 3.7 tons of cocaine on board was frequently used by the CIA to fly terror suspec...

I just figured out that Trevor Paglen, the co-author of Torture Taxi , a book about how planespotting was used to track information about th...

Readers of Gerald Posner's Why America Slept know that there has been evidence of Saudi royal family connections to the al Qaeda 9/11 t...

26 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, are currently on trial in absentia in Italy for the kidnapping and "extraordinary rendition" ...

Dave Palmer recently finished reading Tim Weiner's book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA , and sent the following review to the S...

An article in The Progressive by Matthew Rothschild worries that the FBI's InfraGard program is deputizing businesses, training them f...

December 12, 2007 The Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV, Chairman The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Washington, DC 20...

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars observes that "the US has not only always considered waterboarding to be torture, but h...

...read this description of it from Malcolm Nance, former chief of training at the U.S. Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE)...

CIA Director (and former head of the NSA) Gen. Michael Hayden is unhappy with CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's work uncovering abu...

In today's New York Times : When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the B...

Source and page references are to Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA , 2007, Doubleday, pp. 71-167. 1953-1961 President: Dw...

Virgil Griffith has put together a fascinating data-mining tool that compares anonymous Wikipedia edits to WHOIS records for IP addresses,...

A major gap in Tim Weiner's A Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2007, Doubleday) is that it contains not a word about the 2002 c...

Source and page references are to Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA , 2007, Doubleday, pp. 1-70. 1945-1953 President: H...