A Federal Court in Washington DC has issued a very hard slap down by of the government’s continued use of bogus evidence obtained by brutal torture to try to justify continued detention of detainees at Guantanamo.

Lockheed Martin has been hired by the US government to “train” prosecutors and public defenders in Liberia; what could go wrong?

In this post, I’m going to test a hypothesis that OLC may not have included “cramped confinement” in its torture plans until it removed “mock burial.” If I’m right, it means after having been told OLC would not approve mock burial, OLC and CIA instead just renamed what they were doing as “cramped confinement” so [...]

The first, and most obvious, issue of conflict with OPR is that it places evaluation and resolution of ethical complaints against DOJ attorneys in the hands of the DOJ. The power to determine whether there is any impropriety is solely within the hands of those supervising and/or ultimately responsible for the impropriety. It is a process ripe with conflict and cronyism that protects DOJ malfeasants at the expense of the public interest and well being.

The OPR Report has been leaked, and it looks like the Obama DOJ has watered it down to protect Bush malfeasants.

In a stunning and refreshing decision, the British High Court has overruled the British government’s attempt to suppress torture evidence on the US and British treatment of Binyam Mohamed. From The Guardian: David Miliband, the foreign secretary, acted in a way that was harmful to the rule of law by suppressing evidence about what the [...]

Jane Mayer’s latest piece describes how much work went into last week’s Executive Orders ending the use of torture. Which offers key lessons about the work we need to do to make sure he also ends warrantless wiretapping.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about classified provisions in the Intelligence Oversight Bill of late. I wonder what’s in there?

The Senate Armed Services Committee has a hearing on torture that promises to feature fireworks.

When the CIA OIG refers to water-boarding, they refer to it as “the water board.” Makes it sound even more medieval, doesn’t it?