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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved Friday to delay congressional inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying the administration could not provide witnesses or ...

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 ...

But some committee Republicans maintained that, in a few cases, the technique saved lives. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, I use the example, when the interrogators used severe interrogation, he began to ...

When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential ...

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 ...