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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Following the Senate’s confirmation of Mike Pompeo as CIA director, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, issued a statement ...

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 ...

A 9/11 defendant held at Guantanamo Bay was ruled unfit to stand trial this week after he was diagnosed as psychotic with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by a military medical panel due to the effects ...

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 ...

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 ...