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At Americans for Prosperity Conference, Pushback Against New Yorker Article

By | 08.27.10 | 3:40 pm

At Friday’s Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity (AFP) in Washington, D.C., not only is David Koch not the proverbial elephant in the room, but organizers are hitting back against Jane Mayer’s recent New Yorker profile of the Koch family.

The Koch Brothers and the Tea Parties

By | 08.24.10 | 1:44 pm

Jane Mayer has written a thorough and engaging piece about the Koch brothers for the latest issue of the New Yorker. While some have quipped that it falls short of penetrating the veil of secrecy that David and Charles prefer to operate behind, it is nonetheless required reading for anyone More…

Because You Need to Know What Dick Cheney Thinks About Things

By | 02.12.10 | 3:12 pm

The torture advocate and former vice president will be on ABC News’ “This Week,” interviewed by Jonathan Karl, possibly the only ABC reporter to contribute to Cheney’s favorite magazine, the Weekly Standard. It’s sure to be a hard-hitting interview. Interestingly, ABC is allowing Jane Mayer of The New Yorker More…

Interrogation Contracts That the CIA Won’t Let You See

By | 07.07.09 | 2:01 pm

This is my favorite rejection under the Freedom of Information Act ever.

In May, following a wealth of disclosures about the role of the Survival Evasion Resistence Escape program, which trains U.S. troops to resist torture, in shaping the Defense Department and the CIA’s interrogation programs under the Bush More…

Did the CIA Lie to the Red Cross?

By | 04.14.09 | 6:19 pm

Yup, that’s what Jane Mayer told Alternet’s Liliana Segura: the Defense Department actually hid prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross when the humanitarian group first visited the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in 2002.

“That’s an overt act; lying to the Red Cross, hiding prisoners More…

Does It Matter If You Call It ‘Torture’?

By | 12.17.08 | 2:50 pm

As every lawyer knows, language matters. Bill Clinton was famously impeached because his definition of “sexual relations” didn’t include oral sex – a definition that Republican lawyers didn’t agree with.

So does it matter if the interrogation techniques that were used, authorized and encouraged by senior officials in the US More…

Second Circuit to Re-Hear Extraordinary Rendition Case Today

By | 12.09.08 | 12:02 pm

The case of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen arrested in New York and sent to Syria to be interrogated under torture, will be re-heard today by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, sitting en banc.

As I reported earlier, the 34-year-old computer consultant of Syrian descent More…