According to a report from Al Jazeera America , the Senate investigation into Bush-era tactics after 9/11 found that the CIA used interrogation techniques not authorized by the U.S. Department of ...

Robert Litt, the general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is a former defense lawyer who represented several CIA officials in matters relating to the agency’s detention ...

WASHINGTON -- The CIA misled Congress and kept former President George W. Bush in the dark as it conducted interrogations of terror suspects that were far more brutal ...

Eighty religious leaders across the country have penned op-eds calling on Congress to release a Dec. 2012 report on CIA interrogations. The National Religious Campaign Against Torture says that on ...

This morning, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report detailing brutal interrogation methods used by the CIA in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. The report says ...

Yesterday's confirmation hearing for Caroline Krass, President Obama's nominee to serve as the CIA's general counsel, quickly turned into an argument over the declassification of documents detailing ...

The timeline laid out in the report shows, however, that military and CIA officers were being trained how to conduct coercive interrogations for as much as eight months before receiving the Justice ...

WASHINGTON — As head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has spent hundreds of hours in secret briefings and seen thousands of pictures from battlefields in Syria, ...

The Department of Justice has announced today that Attorney General Eric Holder will assign a prosecutor to investigate whether crimes were committed in the CIA interrogation of detainees during the ...

As the report was released, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed veteran prosecutor John Durham to open a preliminary investigation into the claims of abuse. Durham is already investigating the ...

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