WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The contentious debate over so-called enhanced interrogation techniques took center stage Wednesday on Capitol Hill as a former FBI agent involved in the questioning of terror ...

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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 ...

The extent of the tape destruction was disclosed through a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the government. Heavily redacted papers filed in the case indicate a dozen destroyed ...

James Mitchell defended his work for the CIA during the war on terror. The psychologist credited with devising the C.I.A.'s program of "enhanced interrogation" during ...

As this week’s TIME cover story details, the movie Zero Dark Thirty has unleashed a controversy over the extent to which torture, or “enhanced interrogation techniques,” were used in the decade-long ...

WASHINGTON — CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who defended harsh interrogation techniques and was involved with the fallout after the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, announced ...