Former State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the first congressional panel convened to address allegations of torture that Bush administratio...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — CIA records show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on harsh interrogation techniques being used on terrorist...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
Says Adams: "I have never known anyone in a leadership position in the military who would condone torture. They would never do it... which is to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law."
Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
I never thought I would say this, but Lynndie England is a symbol of embarrassment. Not because she posed in pictures following orders, but because our government let her take the fall.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — While eager to find out more about the Bush administration's harsh interrogation and detainee policies, Senate Democrats are hintin...
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.
AP | PAMELA HESS and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
House and Senate negotiators working on an intelligence bill have agreed to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which woul...
Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics