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The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq has barred military interrogators from using the most coercive techniques potentially available to them in the past, declaring that requests to employ the measures ...

The Justice Department is pressing the CIA to publicly reveal the specific interrogation methods authorized by the Bush administration for a handful of senior al Qaeda captives, senior department ...

Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, pictured here Wednesday, say CIA officials who used the interrogation techniques outlined in the memos are in the clear as long as their actions complied with ...

Matthew Alexander led the interrogation team that tracked down al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Alexander, a critic of the harsh techniques employed by the military during the ...

Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Current and former U.S. officials say that ...

Even as the Pentagon issues new interrogation techniques prohibiting certain tactics used in the past, the White House is asking Congress to legalize some of the same tactics. This is WEEKEND EDITION ...

WASHINGTON — Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods — and ...

Case Files of a Texas Ranger explores real Texas murder cases throughout of chilling interrogations. Here’s the release date, ...

NEW YORK – Just days after the Bush administration announced its intention to seek the death penalty for six men allegedly involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Justice and the ...

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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 ...