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 prohibition was contained in a bill authorizing intelligence activities for the current year, which the Senate approved on a 51-45 vote. It would restrict the CIA to the 19 interrogation ...

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 ...

The surprisingly contentious confirmation process of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's pick for attorney general, has come down to one issue: waterboarding. Mukasey has called waterboarding personally ...

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 ...

Jeremy Palowski at Washington's The Olympian whipped up Internet rage by reporting that a former U.S. soldier is accused of "holding his 4-year-old daughter's head under the water in the kitchen sink ...

Does anybody remember torture? It used to be quite the scandal stateside, as the abuse and misconduct of officials at places like Guantanamo Bay made news, but you don't hear about it as much anymore.

Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday sought murder and conspiracy charges against the alleged planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and five others. Mohammed was subjected to ...

Someone in the gov’t has leaked and ABC news has reported the names, faces and work locations of two men who designed the CIA’s interrogation techniques used against al-Qaeda. ABC reports the men ...

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 ...