WASHINGTON -- The CIA in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two al-Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody, a step it took in the midst of congressional and legal ...

The fallout continues from the Justice Department's release last week of four Bush Administration memos. Those previously classified documents sought to give legal cover to the CIA for severe ...

Photo: Walid Hanatsheh after his interrogation. In the last months of 2019 and early 2020, a growing number of cases of severe physical torture against Palestinian detainees carried out by Israeli ...

WASHINGTON — The CIA first asked top Bush administration officials for permission to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in May 2002, three months before the Justice ...

[JURIST] Two secret legal opinions circulated within the US Department of Justice in 2005 endorsed "severe" interrogation techniques, including "head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid ...

WASHINGTON --The White House said on Friday that it had given the Central Intelligence Agency approval to resume its use of some severe interrogation methods for questioning terrorism suspects in ...

WASHINGTON — Then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice verbally OK'd the CIA's request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, a decision memorialized a ...

In the paper, Shane O’Mara, a professor at Ireland’s Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, wrote that the severe interrogation techniques appear based on “folk psychology” — a layman’s idea of ...

Civil rights lawyers are trying to force the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to turn over photographs and videotapes of harsh interrogation techniques applied to a prisoner at ...

Amid congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, the CIA destroyed at least two videotapes in 2005 documenting the interrogation of two al-Qaida operatives in the agency's ...