WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The contentious debate over so-called enhanced interrogation techniques took center stage Wednesday on ...

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 ...

Matthew Alexander led the interrogation team that tracked down al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Alexander, a critic of the harsh techniques employed by the military during the ...

Former AG Mukasey, CIA chief at odds over role of "enhanced techniques." WASHINGTON, May 17, 2011 -- Top current and former government officials may have finally answered the question of whether ...

They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...

A Georgetown law professor who has been working to end the use of physicians in Army interrogations said he recently received information from the U.S. Army defending its interrogation techniques.

Some of the most vehement critics of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” are standing behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), despite accusations that she didn’t speak up forcefully ...

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 ...

The Central Intelligence Agency repeatedly tortured suspected terrorists, regularly lied about it to Congress and the White House, and, for all the pain and trouble this caused the agency and the ...

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 ...

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In court this week, a psychologist who waterboarded prisoners for the CIA rolled up a towel, wrapped it around the neck of a criminal defense lawyer, and slowly pulled the ...