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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted overseas interrogations that included sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation, and physical abuse, according to documents made available earlier this week. The letters and memoranda, originally sent to the...

JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that despite the potential political cost to President Obama of investigating the torture memos released by the former Bush administration, failure to act on the memos...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent an open letter Monday to US Attorney General Eric Holder to "express strong support for opening a criminal investigation into abusive interrogation practices by the US government...

Former US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel lawyer John Yoo Monday declared his intent to appeal a lower court ruling allowing a lawsuit against him alleging complicity in...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday that the US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are "high-profile symbols" of a trend toward finding ways to circumvent...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Monday released redacted documents that describe the alleged torture and abuse of Guantanamo Bay detainees in CIA custody, transcribed from Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings. The documents, released...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Friday that a torture lawsuit against former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo can proceed. Judge Jeffrey White refused...

Several senior officials working in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Bush administration sought to limit uses of so-called enhanced interrogation tactics but broadly agreed on the legality of the tactics, according...

Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Thursday defended national security policies of the Bush administration. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) , Cheney criticized many of the security policies...

A coalition of progressive organizations Monday filed disciplinary complaints with five state bar associations seeking the disbarment of 12 former US government officials associated with the legal rationales behind the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques [JURIST...