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 ...

Former Congressman Peter Hoekstra was chairman and later, Ranking Minority Member of the House Intelligence Committee. The Michigan Republican served nine terms in the House and he now works for a ...

Donald Trump thinks the United States isn't demonstrating its strength enough in the fight against the Islamic State. One of his proposed solutions as president is to revive waterboarding, an enhanced ...

Documents from the Guantanamo detention camp show prisoners there and at secret CIA facilities were interrogated over and over about Osama bin... Did Harsh Interrogation Tactics Lead To Bin Laden? To ...

Review of Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. By Shane O’Mara. Harvard University Press. 322 pp. $29.95 CIA records describe the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the ...

One vocal participant in the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques is former Vice President Dick Cheney. Recently he has stepped into the... Cheney Defends Enhanced Interrogation Techniques ...

WASHINGTON - The FBI warned the Defense Department as early as the fall of 2002 that harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects was unlikely to bear fruit and could enrage the Muslim world and squander ...

What has come to be known as the "Torture Report" by Senate investigators broke more new ground than expected. Lawmakers examined interrogations of terror suspects ...

For the last six years, the CIA has maintained that only 30 detainees experienced such so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, and only three detainees were waterboarded, a form of simulated ...

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." ...

Eight years after the last U.S. detainee was waterboarded, America is still debating whether it crossed the line of torture — and whether it was worth it. At the Aspen Institute’s annual Security ...