on June 8, 2004, Ashcroft went before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had just learned from the press that Yoo and Bybee, from their perch at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, had authored memoranda in August 2002 asserting inherent presidential authority to …

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If you think Bybee and Yoo and the rest ought to be tried as war criminals, then treat them like people who should be tried as war criminals, not as respectable colleagues with whom you happen to disagree about this or that point of legal interpretation.

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President Barack Obama invoked "state secrets" to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed.

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A little more than one year ago, we found ourselves in the midst of a presidential election campaign that seemed almost interminable. In one of the Republican primary debates, Senator John McCain spoke some words that stood out then and still reverberate today.

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Two Spanish papers this morning are reporting that the criminal complaint against top Bush Administration lawyers involved in Guantanamo policy has been reopened for investigation. The lawyers are: Jay S. Bybee, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit

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When John C. Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer, was selected by President George W. Bush in May 2004 to join a government board charged with releasing historical Nazi and Japanese war crimes records, trouble quickly followed...

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With the Bush Administration about to recede into history, a widely asked question is whether the neoconservative philosophy that underpinned its major foreign policy decisions will likewise vanish from the scene.

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Rogue nations are already pointing to Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA's secret prisons as examples of our treatment of prisoners, and saying that we should expect nothing less in return.

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Depending on people's musical tastes, responses to reports that music has been used to torture prisoners often produces flippant comments along the lines of, "If I had to listen to David Gray's 'Babylon'/the theme tune from Barney (the purple dinosaur)/Christina Aguilera, I'd b …

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George W Bush is considering issuing pardons for US spies embroiled in allegations of torture just before he leaves the White House.

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This is the first of two stories adapted from "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press.

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[I]t is clear that what began on September 11, 2001, as a battle for America's security became, and continues to be, a battle for the country's soul.

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The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States.

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You want a scary thought? Imagine a fanatic in the mold of Dick Cheney but without the vice president's sense of humor.

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Why we can't let the Bush Administration get away with its crimes.

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In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush Administration's grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both the individuals within the administration who "made it happen" (a group that starts with Vice President Cheney and his chief of  …

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Bob Herbert writes: Thursday was the 21st anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

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Throughout the Bush presidency, he toiled in secrecy deep within the White House, a mysterious and feared presence who never stepped into the sunlight of public disclosure. Until yesterday.

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Odd though it may seem, ideological conservatives used to be fierce critics of "executive supremacy." For instance, in 1940, when Franklin D.

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There he sat, hunched and scowling, at the witness table in front of the House Judiciary Committee: the bearded, burly form of the chief of staff and alter ego to the vice president -- Cheney's Cheney, if you will -- and the man most responsible for building President Bush's noti …

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A House of Representatives committee voted Tuesday to compel vice presidential chief of staff David Addington to testify about controversial interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects overseas.

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Ray McGovern writes: Is it because John Yoo, the former Justice Department's hired hand, is such an easy target? Is it because of the cheeky, in-your-face way in which Yoo argues that the president has the authority to have your eyes poked out and your sons' testicles crushed,  …

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In an interview Sunday on CNN, onetime gay conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan asserted that Bush officials who worked on a memo authorizing legal use of torture "should not leave the country" because they "will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes."

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Two days after the Bush administration officially acknowledged for the first time its use of waterboarding on detainees held by the CIA, Attorney General Michael Mukasey rejected any criminal investigation into the use of the torture method.

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At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and inte …

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