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WASHINGTON — A former FBI interrogator who questioned al-Qaida prisoners testified Wednesday that the Bush administration falsely boasted of success from extreme techniques like waterboarding, when ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Sunday said that a report chronicling Central Intelligence Agency extreme interrogation techniques proved that such methods did not aid U.S. efforts to find and kill Osama ...

Holding a rare press conference at the agency’s headquarters, Brennan vacillated between defending his colleagues at the agency against charges of extreme forms of interrogation and supporting Obama’s ...

President Obama's decision to publicly release the so-called torture memos has re-ignited a furious debate about whether Bush administration officials should face prosecution for crafting legal ...

President Bush's push this week for legislation that narrowly defines U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions is motivated by his aides' conviction that the CIA must continue using a small ...

Dave Petersen is a pansy. He shies around calling your editorial board propagandists, but I have the courage to do so. You are slanderers! Everyone knows that America is the best, freest nation in the ...

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