Matthew Alexander led the interrogation team that tracked down al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Alexander, a critic of the harsh techniques employed by the military during the ...

In the new book The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda, former FBI agent and interrogator Ali Soufan says that the government missed key opportunities to prevent ...

Terrorists are trained to withstand traditional interrogation techniques. Therefore, high-value detainees need harsher techniques to reveal important information. Advanced interrogation techniques ...

As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 ...

April 16 (Reuters) - Four newly released memos issued by the U.S. Justice Department during the Bush administration between 2002 and 2005 spelled out methods that could be used by interrogators on ...

We may never know the actual details of the U.S. raid that led to Osama bin Laden's death. We do know that Central Intelligence Agency personnel, sometimes using what is referred to as advanced ...

WASHINGTON - A Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks concludes that the agency initially kept the secretary of state and some U.S. ambassadors in the ...

And so the bickering begins. Any hope that Congress could have a truly nonpartisan discussion about the CIA’s interrogation techniques were dashed just minutes into the first formal hearing since the ...

The victim's family alleged that DOC staff was aware of his mental illness and physical condition. Credit: Illustration/ rawpixel public domain In 1989, at age 43, Richard LaPointe was wrongfully ...