PRESS RELEASE: Melville House offers FREE ebook of torture report after Senate Republicans try to suppress it
Melville House has announced it is giving away free ebooks of its edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture after reports that the Republican head of the Senate… Read more »
The psychologist claiming in court that he didn’t create the CIA torture program has written a book claiming he created the CIA torture program
James Mitchell’s lawyers will attempt to beat a lawsuit filed by two former CIA black-site detainees and the family of a third prisoner who died while in CIA custody by claiming that… Read more »
Is the torture report a public record? An interview with the National Security Archive’s Lauren Harper
Two weeks ago, the National Security Archive’s Lauren Harper wrote a fascinating op-ed in Al Jazeera America (RIP!) called “The CIA torture report belongs to the public.” Since our publication… Read more »
The CIA quietly agreed with the Senate Torture Report’s critiques of the CIA
When we last reported on the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture, we brought word that the Department of Justice was doing its best to keep the full report away… Read more »
Has anyone in the White House read the Senate Torture Report?
On Monday, we wrote about Amnesty International’s day of action in honor of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Amnesty’s campaign—American Torture Story—encouraged the group’s members to remind Congress,… Read more »
Amnesty International commemorates one-year anniversary of Senate Torture Report with day of action
Wednesday, December 9th marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. While publication of the report did much to make visible the horrific… Read more »
New report: American Psychological Association colluded with DoD and CIA to promote torture
The story of psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen was surely one of the most shocking revelations to emerge from the publication the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Known… Read more »
The New Yorker sheds new light on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s struggle to release the torture report—and the Obama Administration’s resistance to it
It’s been six months since the release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture (and Melville House’s publication of the report in book form), yet… Read more »
New report reveals American Psychological Association collaborated with Bush administration to sanctify “enhanced interrogation”
One of the most haunting revelations of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture was the role of two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who appear in the report… Read more »
New York Times reporter wins legal battle with Obama administration
On Monday, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter James Risen’s fight with the Obama administration finally came to an end, when Justice Department prosecutors announced that they would not call… Read more »