March 2014WASHINGTON — An advocacy group representing American military veterans and Iraqi civilians arrived here on Wednesday armed with a message for the United States government: Washington must do...
For decades, the powerful have attempted to silence their critics by filing meritless lawsuits intended to intimidate public watchdogs and advocacy groups. This repressive tactic — called “Strategic...
Updated: August 30, 2018
November 8, 2013, New York – In response to an appeal filed today by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, seeking to overturn his conviction before a military commission, the Center for...
October 22, 2014, New York – In response to today’s guilty verdicts against all four former Blackwater security guards charged in the 2007 killings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad,...
Join CCR Executive Director Vince Warren for a thought-provoking discussion on U.S. torture policies, CCR's lawsuits for accountability, and what you can do. CCR was the first organization to file a...
Updated: February 7, 2013
Join CCR Executive Director Vince Warren for a thought-provoking discussion on U.S. torture policies, CCR's lawsuits for accountability, and what you can do. CCR was the first organization to file a...
Updated: February 20, 2013
January 2014Evangelical advocates, having failed here, are finding friendlier audiences all over the world. Long before President Obama selected three gay athletes to lead the American delegation to the Sochi...
“We Tortured Some Folks” —Now what? With the release of the Senate CIA Torture Report earlier this month, the torture debate is going strong. Despite President Obama’s admission that “we crossed a...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Since 9/11, the United States has moved to legalize many policies that sanction and protect state violence, including in prisons from Guantánamo to Bagram. Using the context of the so-called "War on...
Updated: June 24, 2015
August 17, 2015California Attorney General Kamala Harris is nothing if not ambitious. Not content with being the Golden State's top law enforcement officer--a position she has held since 2011, after serving seven...
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