Waterboarding, or "water torture," is a brutal practice whereby an interrogator straps a prisoner to a board, places a wet rag in his mouth, and by pouring water through the rag induces controlled ...

President Obama’s nominee for FBI director on Tuesday said waterboarding is torture and illegal, and told lawmakers he fought to block the practice while serving in the George W. Bush administration.

Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques -- "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning. But the White House will not go that far ...

In the documentary series Our Guy in Colombia, adventurer Guy Martin showed up expecting motorbikes and landscapes - but ...

Former AG Mukasey, CIA chief at odds over role of "enhanced techniques." WASHINGTON, May 17, 2011 -- Top current and former government officials may have finally answered the question of whether ...

NORRISTOWN — An Abington Township couple were convicted of conspiring in a scheme to discipline the woman’s 11-year-old daughter with a waterboarding technique that impeded the child’s ability to ...

Vermont police are investigating an alleged hazing incident at the country’s oldest private military college involving reports of "branding and waterboarding," according authorities. A Northfield ...

They looked at the victim's ID and confirmed it was the wrong person, DOJ says. Two Florida brothers and another man were charged with federal kidnapping, waterboarding, and torturing a man despite ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - A mother was given a 30-day jail sentence after Oregon prosecutors said she waterboarded her child and placed him in the freezer. KPTV reports that police were called ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two brothers and another man are facing federal charges following a kidnapping that took some bizarre twists, including an attempted waterboarding when they tried to make the ...

NORRISTOWN — An Abington Township couple is headed to jail for several months after the man and woman were convicted of conspiring in a scheme to discipline the woman’s 11-year-old daughter with a ...