Religious Leaders Press for Torture Commission

Political candidates often invoke God and spirituality on the campaign trail, but Rev. Richard Killmer, executive director of the National Religious Campaign against Torture, would like more pols to live up to those professed beliefs once they’re in office. President Obama, for example, has spoken eloquently More…

CIA Admits Destroying Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes

The CIA today acknowledged in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that it destroyed 92 tapes of harsh interrogations of detainees related to the “war on terror”.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit seeking the information more than five years ago, and more than More…