Tag: CIA
Cora Currier: A Public Indictment Could Shed Light on CIA’s Secret Program
March 2013What happened to the victims of the US secret prisons and extraordinary renditions?
Nick Turse: “I Begged for Them to Stop”
February 2013Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
Greg Grandin: The Latin American Exception
February 2013How a Washington global torture gulag was turned into the only gulag-free zone on Earth.
Cora Currier: At Least 20 CIA Prisoners Still Missing
February 2013Long after the US government claims to have shut down its secret prisons, detainees remain unaccounted for.
Tom Engelhardt: Dumb and Dumber
February 2013A secret CIA drone base, a blowback world, and why Washington has no learning curve.
Tom Engelhardt: The U.S. Intelligence Community’s New Year’s Wish
January 2013Megatrends, game-changers, black swans, tectonic shifts, and a world not that different from 2012.
Brandon Lingle: Queen’s Creek
August 2012Back from Iraq, a veteran meditates on the past, present, and future of American warfare, and the small creek in Virginia where they all flow together.
Alfred W. McCoy: Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad
August 2012How two administrations and both parties made illegality the American way of life.
Nick Turse: The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War
June 2012Civilian soldiers, drones, and cyber attacks are just a few elements of the Obama formula for contemporary war.
