WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The contentious debate over so-called enhanced interrogation techniques took center stage Wednesday on ...

Donald Trump thinks the United States isn't demonstrating its strength enough in the fight against the Islamic State. One of his proposed solutions as president is to revive waterboarding, an enhanced ...

One vocal participant in the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques is former Vice President Dick Cheney. Recently he has stepped into the... Cheney Defends Enhanced Interrogation Techniques ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON - The FBI warned the Defense Department as early as the fall of 2002 that harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects was unlikely to bear fruit and could enrage the Muslim world and squander ...

Robert Siegel talks to Peter "Pete" Hoekstra, who was chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2004-2007. He talks about the Senate... Former Congressman: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Can ...

For the last six years, the CIA has maintained that only 30 detainees experienced such so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, and only three detainees were waterboarded, a form of simulated ...

Zubaydah, who has been held without charge or conviction since 2002, was the first individual subjected to the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques following the September 11 attacks ...

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 ...