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 ...

Those who actually know what information was gathered from the use of enhanced interrogation techniques by CIA officers are now feeling vindicated. After years of being widely criticized for the ...

WASHINGTON - A Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks concludes that the agency initially kept the secretary of state and some U.S. ambassadors in the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The journey into the CIA's most extreme interrogation program began in darkness. Blindfolded, hooded and wearing earmuffs, suspected terrorists were shackled and flown to secret ...

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 slim majority of Americans believe the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the Bush administration were justified but still favor investigation into possible abuses, a new Gallup poll finds.

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 ...