They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...

The fight over torture policy is often reported as a split between the CIA and the FBI. As the story goes, CIA interrogators advocated harsh techniques while FBI interrogators opposed them. Now an ...

On September 11, 2001, the United States learned a tragic lesson -– our shores could no longer keep us safe and our government failed to uncover the murderous plan of terrorists bent on killing ...

On September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania, irrevocably ...

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. Ineffective, slow, unreliable - that's a characterization of harsh interrogations by someone who took part in them. Today, a Senate ...

SACRAMENTO (BCN) – Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced a new piece of legislation on Thursday to push for more ethical interrogation practices in California law enforcement training. If passed, Senate ...

Opponents of last week’s release of memos detailing CIA interrogation techniques argue that they will provide enemies of the United States with a training manual to prepare their operatives for ...

I'm being tortured by my own newspaper. Please stop. After reading your editorial "Probe torture justifiers" (April 25), my psychological pain is intense -- and torture is the infliction of severe ...

For years, the Bush Administration defended its harsh interrogation methods against accusations of torture by portraying them as a measured intelligence gathering tool that wouldn’t be allowed to get ...

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In court this week, a psychologist who waterboarded prisoners for the CIA rolled up a towel, wrapped it around the neck of a criminal defense lawyer, and slowly pulled the ...