Author Archives: Peter Van Buren

Whistleblowers and the Classification Tangle

With 92 million documents, 107 secrecy designations, and retroactive classifications, government secrecy perpetuates itself.

An All-American Nightmare

Why “Zero Dark Thirty” won’t settle the torture question

What Obama & Romney Won’t Talk About

Six questions for a real foreign-policy debate

Tortured Priorities

John Kiriakou, an innocent whistleblower, is the only one being held accountable for DOJ-sanctioned torture.

Imperial Reconstruction

We can’t remake Iraq and Afghanistan–and at home we don’t even try.

The President’s Leak Mystique

The administration wages war on whistleblowers while planting state secrets in the New York Times

Joining the Whistleblowers’ Club

The Obama administration wields the tools of justice to silence dissent.

Chickening Out in Iraq

From TomDispatch: How your tax dollars financed “reconstruction” madness in the Middle …

Occupying Iraq, State Department-Style

From TomDispatch.com: Mercenaries turn Baghdad’s Green Zone into frat house with guns. By …

Warrior Pundits and War Pornographers

From TomDispatch.com: Why it feels so good to be embedded with the …