According to memos by the Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded 183 times.AP For years, the Bush Administration defended its ...

the technique." Currently, President George W. Bush supports allowing evidence collected through waterboarding to be used, while a bill has been introduced in Congress rejecting "coercive ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The journey into the CIA's most extreme interrogation program began in darkness. Blindfolded, hooded and wearing earmuffs, suspected terrorists were shackled and flown to secret ...

The top legal adviser for the military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees told Congress yesterday that he cannot rule out the use of evidence derived from the CIA's aggressive interrogation techniques ...

The nation’s top CIA lawyer after the September 11 attacks, John Rizzo, the man who convinced the Bush administration to sign off on waterboarding techniques that simulate drowning, says he has no ...

In the years following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the debate over torture largely came to take place within the context of waterboarding. Nearly two decades after the attacks, there ...

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Cheney said this week that dunking terrorist suspects in water during questioning was a “no-brainer,” prompting complaints from human-rights advocates that he was endorsing ...

Jan 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched an investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects in 2002. Among the techniques ...