Sen. Mike Lee asked Utah Republicans if they’d rather be forced to listen to KSL radio or be waterboarded — a brutal interrogation technique that simulates the feeling of drowning and has widely been ...

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 ...

Gingrich said Pelosi "lied to the House" when she earlier claimed that the CIA had never briefed her about the Bush administration's use of interrogation methods like waterboardin ...

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For years, the Bush Administration defended its harsh interrogation methods against accusations of torture by portraying them as a measured intelligence gathering tool that wouldn’t be allowed to get ...

Top Republicans are demanding an apology from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or proof to back her claim that the CIA misled Congress about the use of harsh interrogation tactics. Pelosi last week said she ...

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 ...

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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.