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Newly released documents and interviews portray the civilian leadership at the Pentagon as urgently concerned that al Qaeda and Taliban detainees might have information that could prevent terrorist ...

Former CIA and military operatives recreate some of the most controversial “enhanced interrogation” tactics used during America’s post-9/11 war on terror. Stress positions, psychological pressure, ...

The finger pointing continues over the question of whether top U.S. government officials knew that harsh interrogation techniques were being used on enemy combatants during the Bush administration.

A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday examined the evolution of interrogation tactics developed for terrorist suspects and how they apply to U.S. law. A Senate panel today tried to get to ...

To extract information from suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved harsh interrogation techniques in late 2002 that were not in accordance ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to determine how and when U.S. interrogators began using harsh methods as they questioned terrorism suspects at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at Guantanamo ...

Richard Lapointe, center, outside Hartford Superior Court with Kate Germond, left, and Paul Casteleiro, right, of Centurion Ministries in April of 2015. Credit: Tucker Ives | Connecticut Public In ...

Psychologists say there’s a reason why, and a leading communications expert claims there are FBI-approved ways to prevent and redirect interruptions. “There are typically two reasons why someone cuts ...

Testimony in Michelle Troconis’ conspiracy trial revealed that detectives had lied to her about finding body parts in Hartford trash bins while investigating the disappearance of Jennifer Farber Dulos ...

President Bush's aides yesterday disavowed an internal Justice Department opinion that torturing terrorism suspects might be legally defensible, saying it had created the false impression that the ...

There are few issues in the United States that divide public opinion like the death penalty. Whether you are in favor of capital punishment you should agree that it applies only to the guilty. Nothing ...