Interrogation Elite
Obama's administration announced the creation of an elite inter-agency interrogation team to handle captured high-level intelligence targets.
Obama's administration announced the creation of an elite inter-agency interrogation team to handle captured high-level intelligence targets.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering creating a special unit of professional interrogators to handle key terror suspects, focusi...
Courthouse News | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
The first full-time female FBI agent to be stationed at Guantanamo says she was made to bunk with vermin that gave her a tropical disease and was ostr...
Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Our greatest success in this conflict was achieved without torture or abuse. My interrogation team found Abu Musab Al Zarqawi using relationship-building approaches and non-coercive law enforcement techniques.
New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 06.23.2009 | World
The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspe...
Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
This is my full testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse read a portion of this statement near the end of today's hearing.
AP | LARA JAKES and PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the C...
David Danzig | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment
Junior soldiers have imitated techniques they have seen on the program. And military educators report that "24" is one of the biggest problems they have in their classrooms.
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...
Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
When our nation's founders ratified the Bill of Rights 217 years ago today, they knew that justice could not be served in secret, and that punishment doled out in the shadows inexorably leads to illegitimacy.
Paula Gordon | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
While the fate of the nation hangs in the balance, so does that of Troy Anthony Davis. He personifies the continuing threat to justice (and to life) of our de facto judicial system.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks pursued abusive interrogation techniques once used by North Korea and Vietnam...
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. "I'd fall asleep" after ...
Matthew Alexander | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics