“Gitmo Files” lifted the Pentagon’s lid on the prison, describing a corrupt system of military detention resting on torture, coerced testimony and “intelligence” manipulated to justify abuses at the base, writes Patrick Lawrence.
Category: Obama Administration
UPRISING: The Democratic Party Exists To Co-Opt & Kill Authentic Change
The actors remain motionless, and Godot never comes, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Trump & US ‘Insurrection’
Foiling Predictions, Russians Did Not Go Hungry After 2014
RAY McGOVERN: US-Russia Ties, from Heyday to MayDay
RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC
RAY McGOVERN: Once We Were Allies; Then Came MICIMATT
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Obama’s Self-Deceit’—Sept. 29, 2015
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Journalists Are All Julian Assange’—Robert Parry, December 16, 2010
This is the second story in the Best of Consortium News series as we look back at our first 25 years throughout our jubilee year.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Espionage Act Reform Bill Would Protect Journalists Like Julian Assange
Kevin Gosztola reports on U.S. congressional legislation that would protect members of the press who solicit, obtain or publish government secrets.