That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace 'the dark side' almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger - the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

Torture gives false information. And the worst scenarios that tortured detainees coughed up - many of them completely innocent, remember - may well have come t…

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest day…

No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership…

The decent people in this administration - mainly career military brass and Condi's circle - are finally pushing back against the war crimes of Cheney and Rums…