Internal CIA reports released by the Obama administration on Monday suggest that former vice president Dick Cheney was right about one thing: the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists provided ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Former vice president Dick Cheney is back. Sure, you say, he’s been all ...

PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wrote a letter to the new CIA director nominee, Gina Haspel, and asked her to explain her role in the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” In the letter, ...

I understand the desire to 'call a spade a spade,' but it is not for journalists to start labeling specific practices torture," said NPR's Brian Duffy. "That's what the debate is about — what ...

I agree with the letter writers who say torture is abhorrent and inhumane, but that is not my main objection to the use of torture, since war itself is inhumane. I object to torture as an ...

Today we are taking a look into the most effective interrogation techniques and tactics used by the police and CIA. They might not seem so cool like in all those Hollywood movies and TV shows, but ...

NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today alerted a California federal appellate court that the government's assertion of the "state secrets" privilege in an extraordinary rendition case has ...

Review of Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. By Shane O’Mara. Harvard University Press. 322 pp. $29.95 CIA records describe the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the ...

Testimony at Guantánamo Bay shows that C.I.A. black sites, where some detainees were tortured, amounted to test labs for unproven techniques, with shifting rules shaping operations. By Carol Rosenberg ...