WASHINGTON (AP) – CIA Director John Brennan, responding to the Senate torture report, acknowledged Thursday in a rare televised news conference that “abhorrent ...
The Central Intelligence Agency has released 50 declassified documents detailing its use of brutal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The disclosure ...
War booster but torture critic Senator John McCain (R-AZ) took to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon to in no uncertain terms condemn the CIA’s torture practices under the Bush administration, arguing ...
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 ...
Dianne Feinstein is not willing to let the CIA have the last word on torture. The Twitter account of Feinstein, a Democrat and the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee who commissioned an ...
The executive summary of the Senate torture report documents an overwhelming array of CIA deceptions, ranging from misrepresentations about the "effectiveness" of torture to misstatements about the ...
Yesterday's confirmation hearing for Caroline Krass, President Obama's nominee to serve as the CIA's general counsel, quickly turned into an argument over the declassification of documents detailing ...