Sen. John McCain spoke Tuesday about the report released by the Senate intelligence committee about the CIA’s practices of forceful interrogation. McCain is no stranger to brutal war tactics, as he ...

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President Bush's push this week for legislation that narrowly defines U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions is motivated by his aides' conviction that the CIA must continue using a small ...

2002: Abu Zubaydah and at least one other al-Qaida member are subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, possibly including waterboarding (controlled drowning), by their CIA captors. The agency ...

In releasing highly classified documents on the CIA interrogation program last week, President Obama declared that the techniques used to question captured terrorists “did not make us safer.” This is ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and other members of the Bush Administration might have had a tense weekend. After months of delay and controversy, the Obama Administration is expected on Monday to ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper is denying that he ever intended to compare the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation methods” of captured al Qaeda terrorists to past regimes that killed millions of their own people.

WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific ...

Already in the process of declassifying a 500-page summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the harsh techniques, the CIA said it will need more time to similarly review the other two ...

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 CIA has used coercive interrogation techniques since Sept. 11, 2001, for high-level suspects such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, according to The New York Times. The CIA inspector general is ...