Nov. 18, 2005 — -- Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since the techniques were first ...
One of the most important takeaways from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report summary is that senior CIA personnel – which the report refers to as CIA headquarters – knew from the very ...
Attorney General Eric holder announced Thursday that the Justice Department will launch a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two prisoners in CIA custody during the Bush administration, ...
It's an extremely rare occurence that someone in the federal government, especially in the intelligence field, asks for less power. Intra-government wrangling is almost always predicated on securing ...
A month later, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah, an alleged top al-Qaida organizer in Pakistan. Zubaydah proved resistant to traditional interrogation techniques. During the first half of 2002, CIA ...
A lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union forced the Obama Administration to release a CIA Inspector General's report kept secret since 2004. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a special ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret overseas prisons, agency Director Leon Panetta ...
Obama has said interrogators would not face charges if they followed legal guidelines, but the report by the CIA's inspector general said they went too far even beyond what was authorized under ...