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Dec 22, 2014
The Horrific Stories of CIA-sponsored Torture That Aren’t in the Senate Report.

Dec 22, 2014
Growing Chorus Demands Criminal Investigation into Torture Program

Dec 16, 2014
Those Who Approved Torture Shouldn't Be Above the Law

Dec 15, 2014
Now Can Torture Survivor Khaled El-Masri Have His Apology?

Dec 15, 2014
Harrowing Tales of the Wrongly Deported: How Border Patrol Officers Flout the Law and Destroy Lives

Dec 12, 2014
What Did the CIA’s Torture Program Have to Do With Intelligence Gathering? Not Much.

Dec 11, 2014
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: CIA Edition

Dec 10, 2014
"A Train Wreck Waiting to Happen": Shocking Stories from the Senate's Torture Report

Dec 9, 2014
The US's Story of Torture Doesn't Have to End With Impunity