The killing of Osama bin Laden has reignited a heated political debate over the value of "enhanced interrogation techniques"--what many call torture--in the fight against terrorism. The harsh ...
The memo also offered a defense in case any interrogator was charged with violating U.S. or international laws. "Finally, even if the criminal prohibitions outlined above applied, and an interrogation ...
Last week's report on the CIA is hardly the last word on America's harsh interrogation tactics in the aftermath of September 11. Even former CIA agents disagree. And the Obama White House is using the ...
Calling tough interrogation methods a “valuable tool” in the war on terrorism, President Bush last month vetoed a bill to outlaw waterboarding in a rebuke to congressional Democrats and mainstream ...
A group of psychologists and experts, commissioned by the government's Intelligence Service Board, have advised US intelligence agencies that the harsh interrogation techniques used since 9/11 are ...
Nov. 29, 2005 — -- The CIA, accused of using harsh interrogation techniques to extract intelligence from detainees, does not engage in torture, agency Director Porter Goss said today. He said ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate ...
A report by the Physicians for Human Rights claims that officials in the Bush administration experimented on terrorism detainees in an effort to establish guidelines for what constitutes legal ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former deputy CIA director made a series of factual misstatements while defending the agency’s harsh treatment of detainees in his recent book, Senate intelligence committee ...
UPDATE: The newly released memos can be viewed here. UPDATE AGAIN: The Bush Administration approved the use of insects in interrogation. See here. The big news is that at any moment now, the world ...