The Justice Department is pressing the CIA to publicly reveal the specific interrogation methods authorized by the Bush administration for a handful of senior al Qaeda captives, senior department ...

And so the bickering begins. Any hope that Congress could have a truly nonpartisan discussion about the CIA’s interrogation techniques were dashed just minutes into the first formal hearing since the ...

Former Congressman Peter Hoekstra was chairman and later, Ranking Minority Member of the House Intelligence Committee. The Michigan Republican served nine terms in the House and he now works for a ...

In the wake of the release of the CIA torture memos, the Obama Administration already has its hands full with critics on the left who want senior Bush Administration officials prosecuted for the use ...

President Bush signs an executive order laying out rules for interrogation of terrorism suspects. But the long-awaited order is not as specific — or transparent — as many had hoped. This is WEEKEND ...

When lawyers at the Justice Department during the Bush administration said that certain interrogation techniques like waterboarding were not torture, at least one lawyer at the State Department ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, had detailed, contemporaneous knowledge of the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on captured terrorism ...

Aspiring CIA director Gina Haspel used her opening statement before the Senate Intelligence Committee to acknowledge the criticism over her previous work in “black site” prisons. For the last several ...