Earlier this week, Susan Crawford, the official overseeing the military commission process at Guantanamo Bay, dismissed charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani–the man suspected of being the so-called “twentieth” hijacker on 9/11. 
It is not that the government believes he is not a threat.  Rather, Crawford determined, apparently, that prosecutors could not make their case without relying on […]

Over the past couple of weeks, we have learned a lot more about the decision to use torture by the Bush Administration. Some important news included:

The revelation that specific interrogation techniques where discussed at a Principals’ Committee meeting, which included Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary […]