Abu Zubaydah


Torture timeline and Iraq-Al Qaeda ties

According to the Emptywheel’s Torture Timeline, the DIA were getting false information from torture at the same time as they were devising their plan to torture Abu Zubaydah.

The banality of Bush White House evil

Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that the US government methodically authorised torture and lied about it, writes Frank Rich.

SSCI torture narrative

The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a narrative of the general history of torture under the Bush Administration.

Waterboarding is torture: former CIA interrogator

John Kiriakou, the CIA officer involved in the interrogation of a high level detainee at the centre of the latest War on Terror scandal, now says that the man was tortured, writes Jeff Sparrow.