From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. Ineffective, slow, unreliable - that's a characterization of harsh interrogations by someone who took part in them. Today, a Senate ...

WASHINGTON -- Military lawyers warned against the harsh detainee interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, contending in separate memos weeks before Rumsfeld's ...

Eight years after the last U.S. detainee was waterboarded, America is still debating whether it crossed the line of torture — and whether it was worth it. At the Aspen Institute’s annual Security ...

The CIA’s first detainee, Abu Zubaydah experienced almost all of the agency's "enhanced interrogation techniques." At one point, he was told he would only leave the facility in a coffin-shaped box.

WASHINGTON — Military officials tasked with training U.S. troops to evade enemy interrogations provided Pentagon lawyers a list of abusive tactics that could be used in prisons like Guantanamo Bay, a ...

Thomas Perez Jr. was hours into an interrogation by police about his missing father when they dropped some devastating news: A body had been found. Thomas Perez Sr., they told his son, was dead. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials briefed at least 68 U.S. lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on enhanced interrogation methods like simulated drowning that were being considered or used against ...

The Justice Department is pressing the CIA to publicly reveal the specific interrogation methods authorized by the Bush administration for a handful of senior al Qaeda captives, senior department ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A central figure in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the debate over harsh interrogation methods was held in secret CIA detention, then sent back to Pakistan and now believed to ...

And so the bickering begins. Any hope that Congress could have a truly nonpartisan discussion about the CIA’s interrogation techniques were dashed just minutes into the first formal hearing since the ...

This effort lead to the publication of “A Taxonomy of Interrogation Methods” that differentiated between “macro” level dichotomies such as rapport-based / control-based interrogation, friendly / harsh ...

When discussing the “science of interrogation,” the following disclaimer is critical: This post will be about the science of humane and ethical interrogation that has the goal of eliciting verifiable, ...