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WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou has claimed that interrogation techniques ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou has claimed that waterboarding was not the ...

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In December of 2014, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released a tell-all report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) detainment and interrogation of suspected terrorists, concluding ...

Sen. John McCain spoke Tuesday about the report released by the Senate intelligence committee about the CIA’s practices of forceful interrogation. McCain is no stranger to brutal war tactics, as he ...

WASHINGTON -- When the CIA sought permission to use harsh interrogation methods on a captured al-Qaida operative, the response from Bush administration lawyers was encouraging, even clinical. In one ...

LANGLEY, Va. (Reuters) - CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sept. 11 attacks and said it was "unknowable" ...

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 ...

UPDATE: The newly released memos can be viewed here. UPDATE AGAIN: The Bush Administration approved the use of insects in interrogation. See here. The big news is that at any moment now, the world ...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects ...