Robert Crawford | The Seattle Times

CIA Director Mike Pompeo, left, and his replacement CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel

April 9, 2018 at 2:23 pm

Decry torture and Islamophobia: Senate must reject Haspel, Pompeo | Op-Ed

The Haspel and Pompeo nominations must be defeated on the grounds of rejecting torture, rejecting Islamophobia and rejecting an aggressive stance toward war.

May 11, 2011 at 11:52 am

In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, America wrestles with itself over torture

Guest columnist Robert Crawford writes about the claims that torture had a role in leading the U.S. to Osama bin Laden and the moral question...

Opinion

January 22, 2008 at 12:00 am

Democracies don’t torture

Torture has re-entered the public domain. From Attorney General Robert Mukasey's equivocation about waterboarding at his confirmation hearings to the current controversy over the CIA's...

Opinion

October 18, 2005 at 12:00 am

The tarnish of torture

The Bush administration wishes the torture issue would go away. Given his escalating problems of credibility, the president hardly needs...

Opinion