Newt Gingrich: why Nancy Pelosi should quitThe Speaker of the House had said that she wasn’t briefed by CIA on waterboarding being used on Guantanamo detainees, then claimed she’d been “misinformed”. Gingrich calls for her to resign.
Torture memos
Abu Ghraib guards take the Nuremberg
With the release of the CIA torture memos, guards jailed for their treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison plan to appeal on the grounds that they were “scapegoats” for the Bush Administration.
The timeline of torture
Firedoglake’s Emptywheel have constructed a timeline of torture under the Bush Administration based on the newly released CIA memos.
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.
We’re all torturers now
The US has become so casual about torture that we now openly debate its efficacy — something nobody would have dared do in the first days after Abu Ghraib, writes Dahlia Lithwick.
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.
Krugman: We need to investigate American torture and war
America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. What next?
