Sam Husseini is senior analyst at theInstitute for Public Accuracy and is founder ofVotePact.org which is working to break out of the two party bind.
As a DC-based independent journalist with bylines in The Nation, Consortium News and CounterPunch, Husseini further develops recent tactical analysis on the endless war the U.S. government continues to wage.
He can be reached at @samhusseini,
With the confirmation of Gina Haspel as CIA director, there’s rightfully great interest in her record regarding torture. Contrary to the rhetoric--and with barely a word about the utility of torture in rigging the case for the Iraq invasion--the actual ends of torture are incredibly worse than the gruesome means.
Of course, there...