The CIA says the tapes were destroyed late in 2005, a year marked by increasing pressure from defense attorneys to obtain videotapes of detainee interrogations. The scandal over harsh treatment of ...

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Soon after accepting the post of CIA director two years ago, Michael V. Hayden set an unusual goal for his scandal-beset agency: virtual invisibility. "CIA needs to get out of the news as source or ...

The FBI agents worked with the CIA in developing questions, but were denied direct access to Binalshibh for four or five days, according to a report on detainee interrogations by Glenn Fine, Justice ...

I have brought facts to the table, information that undermines the torture narrative they have made careers of spinning. For years, critics like Mayer could level any unfounded accusation they wanted ...

But Gary Berntsen, the commander of a CIA team in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, said CIA personnel initially did not have time for interrogations - a term from the military and intelligence world ...

The documents released by the CIA's inspector general under a court order said interrogators went too far - even beyond what was authorized under Justice Department legal memos that have since been ...

This video explores commonly discussed psychological techniques and misconceptions surrounding CIA interrogations, focusing ...

The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service Jose Rodriguez says President Obama is waging the nation's war against radical Islam in a far more brutal manner than his predecessor President George ...

The executive summary of the Senate torture report documents an overwhelming array of CIA deceptions, ranging from misrepresentations about the "effectiveness" of torture to misstatements about the ...