Senators want background on CIA Director nominee on torture
March 17, 2018
Gina Haspel’s long spy career is so shrouded in mystery that senators want documents declassified so they can decide if her role at a CIA
CIA head says ‘no’ to waterboarding
April 10, 2016
The director of the CIA says his spy agency will not engage in waterboarding or other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques even if ordered to by
Bush open to use of torture
August 14, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the U.S. government. “I don’t
Too much torture of prisoners by Americans?
December 24, 2014
The Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program and the spy agency’s official response clash on almost every aspect of the long-secret operation, including the
The long-term emotional scars of torture
December 23, 2014
At times, waterboarding rendered al-Qaida terror suspect Abu Zubaydah hysterical. But later, a message to CIA headquarters described an interrogator merely lifting his eyebrow and
Hillary Clinton decries torture
December 17, 2014
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she’s proud to have been part of an administration that “banned illegal renditions and brutal interrogations” and said the U.S.
Revived debate on toture, interrogation, CIA
December 15, 2014
When the CIA sought permission to use harsh interrogation methods on a captured al-Qaida operative, the response from Bush administration lawyers was encouraging, even clinical.
Justice Scalia: Torture has a place in fighting terrorists
December 13, 2014
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is joining the debate over the Senate’s torture report by saying it’s hard to rule out the use of extreme
Increasing efforts to discredit Senate CIA report
December 11, 2014
The CIA and several of its past leaders are stepping up a campaign to discredit a five-year Senate investigation into the CIA’s harrowing interrogation practices
Report says torture did not help find bin Laden
December 10, 2014
After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin laden in Pakistan in May 2011, top CIA officials secretly told lawmakers that information gleaned from brutal interrogations played