Read my new piece at Prospect Magazine arguing that US officials have often resisted excessive national security policies in the past, and will likely do so again if Trump tries to implement some of his campaign promises.
Accountability
Story at VICE News: The Bush Administration Whistleblower Who Says the US Has Not Closed the Door on Torture
VICE News recently published my interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State, Colin Powell during the George W Bush administration. The story can be accessed here. Wilkerson discusses torture and the recently-released Senate Torture Report. He makes some startling new disclosures that the CIA held and interrogated rendition detainees on the British territory of Diego Garcia.