The usual thinking about torture is that ‘pain will make the guilty confess.’ A whole new study coming out of Harvard University refutes that all the way around. These researchers are now saying that, contrary to popular belief, ‘the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.’ The research appears in the Journal [...]

Bagram’s ‘King of Torture’ says, “I opened up Abu Ghraib.” He was also sometimes called ‘Monster.’ Damien Corsetti, in charge of interrogation operations, gives a first-person testimony of torture. In simple parlance, his job was to torture some detainees in those CIA secret prisons.
Bagram is a US military base in Afghanistan that is long suspected [...]

Britain unveils guidelines for interrogating suspected terrorists. The guidelines to which British military intelligence operators must adhere to in the interrogation of terrorist suspects were made public, as Gordon Brown announced to the Parliament. The prime minister wants to show that Britain condemns torture and that the publication of these guidelines is to protect the [...]

Watching Obama’s inaugural celebration made me cringe for Bush. If I were him, I would have wanted the earth to swallow me up during Obama’s inaugural address. All the things that the black president mentioned as problems, the colorful president practically caused. Bush was a failure on several counts, but his worst blunder was betraying [...]