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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, had detailed, contemporaneous knowledge of the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on captured terrorism ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials briefed at least 68 U.S. lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on enhanced interrogation methods like simulated drowning that were being considered or used against ...

An opportunity to designate five interrogation techniques, including limiting a person’s food, water and sleep, as torture has been missed, after the European Court of Human Rights failed to revise a ...

We turn now to the expanding controversy over the Bush administration's interrogation of terrorism suspects. At the time, lawyers at the Justice Department in the Office of Legal Counsel concluded ...

And so the bickering begins. Any hope that Congress could have a truly nonpartisan discussion about the CIA’s interrogation techniques were dashed just minutes into the first formal hearing since the ...

MARK COLVIN: It's five years since the end of the George Bush administration, but some questions still linger; among them about the origins of the so-called 'enhanced interrogation program', which ...

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Former Pennsylvania Sen.Rick Santorum said Tuesday that John McCain, who was tortured for more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, "doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works." ...