James Hodge – a longtime editor and award-winning writer with the New Orleans Times-Picayune – and Linda Cooper – an ESL instructor at Tulane University in the early 1990s who writes for the National Catholic Reporter – have tracked the U.S. Army's School of the Americas for years. Their stories have revealed that the Salvadoran defense minster who ordered the assassinations of six Jesuit priests is an unlisted SOA graduate; that Honduran military officers implicated in the murder of U.S. Jesuit James Carney have extensive SOA ties; and that the roots of torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib extend far back into the dark and long history of CIA interrogation manuals.