Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the White House turn over secret Justice Department memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques. One opinion in May 2005 reportedly approved tactics ...
“Deplorable,” “disturbing” and “embarrassing” are adjectives some members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence used almost three years ago in response to a report investigating the CIA’s use ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In early 2003, Glenn Carle, an interrogator with the CIA, arrived at a ...
Methods include mock burials and forcing detainees to wear diapers The Central Intelligence Agency has released 50 declassified documents detailing its use of brutal interrogation techniques on ...
Torture is pointless, useless and degrading for all involved – there are better ways to gather information from other human beings. Discussions and policy regarding prisoner and detainee interrogation ...
An architect of the C.I.A. interrogation program testified that to persuade his superiors to let him stop torturing a captive, he had them stand in the cell and watch. By Carol Rosenberg This article ...
To the editor: Fontana police officers contend their methods of interrogation are perfectly acceptable since they have been used across the country for the last 80 years. It is sad and scary that ...
When the movie “The Report” is released today, it will be painful to watch and will reinfect a wound that will not heal: America’s enhanced interrogation program implemented after 9/11 by the George W ...
I agree with the letter writers who say torture is abhorrent and inhumane, but that is not my main objection to the use of torture, since war itself is inhumane. I object to torture as an ...
Newly released notes from one of the architects of the Bush-Cheney torture program have shown that the scale and ambition of the torture camps at Gitmo and elsewhere might have been greater than we ...
Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back torture because he "absolutely" believes it works, claiming that "people at the highest level of intelligence" have confirmed to him that ...