The Bill of Rights Defense Comittee honored me with their Patriot Award for my work with the Center for Torture Accountability.

The Center for Torture Accountability is launching its second project today: the Bradley Manning Torture Accountability Project.

I hope that the Bradley Manning website proves to be a great resource for researchers, the media, human rights attorneys, and grassroots activists.

Doctors are supposed to heal, not torture. Dr. Larry C. James

The latest torture accountability profile is up: David W. Becker, Guantanamo's chief interrogator.

A psychologist. Psychologists aren't supposed to torture people. Do no harm right? What a jerk. Bruce Jessen's torture accountability profile is now live.

The torture accountability profile for Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the man who brought Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, is now live.

The Center for Torture Accountability's website went live January 11th of this year, the seventh anniversary of the first prisoner arriving at Guantanamo. The goal of the site is to document the individuals who created and justified the US torture regime. There is a flood of information coming out about the Bush administration's torture regime. The website hopes to capture some of that flood of information and make it accessible to the public.

A lot of work has been accomplished

There are a now eighteen profiles on the site. Some, such as Patrick Philbin, James Mitchell, Cofer Black, and Diane Beaver are rather rich and detailed.

A lot of work remains

As of right now, John Rizzo's profile needs a lot of work. John Rizzo is a lawyer for the Central Intelligence Agency, which is never eager to disclose information, and that is part of the reason the profile is so empty. But the primary reason has been a lack of time and people power. Mary Walker is another person who needs a lot of work. While the profile is clear and well written, the sources supporting the claims are not yet in the database. To a lesser extent, James Pavitt also falls into that category.William Haynes is the opposite: well sourced, but the writing has barely begun.