by Nada Bakos | Mar 18, 2013 | Monitor
So much of the intelligence behind the Iraq war 10 years ago turned out to be terrible. At the CIA, I tried to make it at least less-bad.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 15, 2013 | Monitor
Iraq’s tribal sheikhs were more important to the Iraq war than the U.S. military suspected. That’s just one lesson of Iraq that the U.S. neglects by ignoring how Iraqis lived through the grueling war.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
The history of the Iraq War isn’t just a history of a grueling military occupation. As a new report from the government’s top Iraq auditor documents, it’s a history of financial waste, fraud and abuse.
by Robert Beckhusen | Jan 9, 2013 | Monitor
It’s been nearly a decade since contractors and U.S. soldiers worked together to torture Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, for the first time, one of those companies has been forced to pay the victims.
by Spencer Ackerman | Dec 7, 2012 | Monitor
This was once an actual thing that Iraqi insurgents did: fire rockets from on top of their heads.