Not many people get away with calling the Central Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar, at least not when they’re speaking to a room packed with dozens of national media outlets. And yet that is ...

A Harvard study on major U.S. newspapers shows that the papers, when reporting on waterboarding, were drastically inconsistent about when they did and did not describe it as torture. When used by ...

March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" on terrorism suspects on Monday, calling the interrogation technique a form of torture that the Obama ...

In a tweet, Sen. John McCain pushes back against the 2012 GOP presidential candidates who supported waterboarding in last week’s presidential debate. Bloomberg rounds up the candidates’ positions: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The attorney general says currently authorized methods used by CIA are 'lawful.' Jan. 30, 2008— -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey deflected sharp questions and pointed criticisms Wednesday, ...

Sen. Jeff Sessions pledged as attorney general to enforce laws barring waterboarding by U.S. intelligence officers or military servicemen and women, despite President-elect Trump’s campaign promise to ...

Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft has posted video of exiting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta discussing on television today how enhanced interrogation techniques led to the capture of Osama bin Laden.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Donald Trump said he "absolutely" thinks waterboarding works and would consider reinstating it as an interrogation technique, depending on the advice ...