On the heels of today's front page Washington Post story, CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos, Waterboarding Got White House Nod revealing that the Bush White House explicitly endorsed the torture ...

March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" on terrorism suspects on Monday, calling the interrogation technique a form of torture that the Obama ...

A former Navy survival instructor subjected to waterboarding as part of his military training told Congress yesterday that the controversial tactic should plainly be considered torture and that such a ...

In the years following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the debate over torture largely came to take place within the context of waterboarding. Nearly two decades after the attacks, there ...

It might not be surprising that waterboarding, the controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning, would become the subject of... Waterboarding At Coney Island: The Thrill That Chills ...

Image of a woodcut depicting waterboarding included in J. Damhoudère's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, Antwerp, 1556. The surprisingly contentious confirmation process of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's ...

Through the centuries, humans have demonstrated extraordinary inventiveness in finding ways to extract confessions from foes. One of the most enduring means of coercion, dating at least to the days of ...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the ...

Lost in the swirl of the Super Tuesday vote was a very important story about your safety and security. To better define the debate on torture, the Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating the ...

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