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 ...

About a week and a half ago, I heard NPR's ombudsman, Alicia Shepherd, defending NPR's policy on refusing to identify waterboarding ...

"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 ...

Obama's inauguration speech was censored in China . They didn't like these two sentences: "Recall that earlier generations fac...

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...

The latest ApostAZ podcast is out: Episode 007 Atheism and Freethought in Phoenix- Go to atheists.meetup.com/157 for group events! Monthl...

When in 2002 military trainers came to Guantanamo Bay to teach a course on interrogation techniques, they included a chart of the effects of...

Christopher Hitchens decided to experience waterboarding first-hand at the hands of experts, and he did so twice. He vividly describes the ...

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...

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

An article by Philippe Sands in Vanity Fair sets out the evidence that the legal framework set out to justify aggressive interrogation tech...

A 37-page October 23, 2001 memo by John Yoo titled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the Unite...

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

It turns out that part of the intelligence case for Iraq WMD claims and a concern about al-Qaeda trying to obtain them was the result of fal...

The unclassified, for official use only, operations manual for U.S. soldiers stationed at Guantanamo Bay has been leaked to the Internet on ...

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...