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Former Interrogators Debate Harsh Tactics The finger pointing continues over the question of whether top U.S. government officials knew that harsh interrogation techniques were being used on enemy ...

President Bush's aides yesterday disavowed an internal Justice Department opinion that torturing terrorism suspects might be legally defensible, saying it had created the false impression that the ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to determine how and when U.S. interrogators began using harsh methods as they questioned terrorism suspects at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at Guantanamo ...

Michael Chertoff, President Bush's nominee for secretary of homeland security, said at his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday that he did not give intelligence officials any specific advice in 2002 ...

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.

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 ...

Watch any cop show on television — we’re looking at you, all versions of “Law & Order” — and the use of deception during scenes of a suspect’s interrogation, in essence lying to a suspect to get a ...

Over the past decade, the state of Connecticut has, to its credit, enacted legislation that has substantially reduced the likelihood of someone being wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit ...

The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to release a report Tuesday criticizing the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation and detention program. (Update: The report has been released.) The ...