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 ...

John Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst and case officer turned whistleblower, claimed that when it comes to our tech, we "have ...

For the last six years, the CIA has maintained that only 30 detainees experienced such so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, and only three detainees were waterboarded, a form of simulated ...

The criminal investigation includes interrogations of al-Qaida lieutenant Abu Zubaydah and another top al-Qaida leader. Tapes of those interrogations were destroyed, in part, the Bush administration ...

John Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst and case officer turned whistleblower, suggested that when it comes to our devices, we ...

Former CIA spy shares terrifying truth about what our phones and other devices can hear.

One of the big arguments the Central Intelligence Agency has used to defend its enhanced interrogation techniques is that information stemming from those interrogations led to the capture of Osama bin ...

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I have brought facts to the table, information that undermines the torture narrative they have made careers of spinning. For years, critics like Mayer could level any unfounded accusation they wanted ...

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 ...