GWOT: Pakistan GWOT: Pakistan
As the Taliban gains strength, a nascent democracy in Pakistan withers.
Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Shahan Mufti
GWOT: The Philippines GWOT: The Philippines
Since 9/11 the Philippines have seen an explosion of political killings.
Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Luis H. Francia
GWOT: El Salvador GWOT: El Salvador
A new anti-terrorism law gives El Salvador carte blanche to stifle dissent.
Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Wes Enzinna
GWOT: Egypt GWOT: Egypt
America's "war on terror" has strengthened Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's stranglehold on civil liberties.
Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Negar Azimi
Congress to CIA Torturers: ‘If Only You’d Told Us’ Congress to CIA Torturers: ‘If Only You’d Told Us’
The agency's secret destruction of tapes is a parable of the futility of oversight.
Dec 13, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Crime and Cover-Up Crime and Cover-Up
The CIA tapes' destruction and violation of anti-torture statutes they recorded require a special prosecutor.
Dec 13, 2007 / The Editors
Waterboarding Democracy Waterboarding Democracy
Why did four key members of Congress failed to inform the public and the 9/11 Commission about the use of torture on terror suspects?
Dec 12, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels
CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.
False Alarm False Alarm
A predawn fire drill propels a writer into an unexpected encounter with a former CIA director--and an unexpected lesson on the uses and limits of intelligence.
Dec 10, 2007 / Ted Gup
Setting the Record Straight on FISA Setting the Record Straight on FISA
Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.
Dec 7, 2007 / Rep. John Conyers