There are two areas in particular where interrogators would benefit from improvement. The first is in adapting non-coercive criminal interrogation techniques. The second is the realm of cultural knowledge.
Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy
Unlike the previous beer summit, media would not be invited to attend, and Rahm Emmanuel muttered something unprintable about scrubbing the guest list.
AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney i...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
I can't for the life of me figure out why Dick Cheney is still walking around free and -- even worse -- continues to get airtime so he can spew lies about the utter awesomeness of American torture.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Looks like Tom Ridge has joined the ranks of terrorist-sympathizers. In a throwaway comment in this interview with ABC News earlier today, the former...
Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on "Face the Nation" Sunday that -- like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president's c...
Stephen Rickard | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
President Obama and the Interrogation Task Force deserve high praise for making a decisive break with Bush Administration practices, but some forms of torture remain on the books.
John H. Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Given that at least a dozen prisoners -- and likely more -- have died by homicide in military prisons this decade, one wonders how often doctors monitored torturous interrogations without intervening.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Obama's handling of the CIA's report on torture may be the last chance he has to find his way back to Grant Park.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
There's not much that Bush administration lawyers considered torture in their infamous Office of Legal Counsel memos, but mock execution made the list...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.
The Washington Independent | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habea...
Aram Roston | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
A recently released legal memo describing interrogation techniques showed that Bush Administration lawyers had approved the use of "insects" in interrogations.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Days after writing this, it's hardly surprising to wake up and find that the New York Times has suddenly found a use for the word "torture," w...
CNN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
The Justice Department has once again delayed the release of the CIA's internal investigation of its controversial interrogation and detention program...
Donnie Fowler | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford announced two great epiphanies today: why he should not resign (gosh, we thought he was going to) and why his fellow South Carolina Republicans would not cooperate with him the last few years (no, it's not why you think).
The Washington Independant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama's ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency...
The Plumline | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof th...
ABC News | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Obama's new pick to oversee U.S. forces in Afghanistan misled Congress about his role in the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" by U.S. Special...
Bryant Welch | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
The transformation of the APA in the past decade from a historically liberal organization to an authoritarian one that actively assists in torture has been an astonishing process.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Protecting our country from terrorist attacks by obtaining reliable intelligence is essential. But it is also essential to assure U.S. moral authority by acting in a manner that is consistent with our high ideals.
Politico | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just made two seemingly contradictory assertions: First, that so-called "torture" photos of interrogations won't ev...
The Plumline | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Get ready to hear Republicans and conservative opinion-makers using a new phrase to describe the unreleased photos of detainees that are at the center...
The Plum Line | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
I noted here yesterday that at a press conference, Senator Lindsey Graham disclosed that Hillary Clinton had privately confided to him that she worrie...
Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics