Interrogations

Interrogation Elite

Matthew Alexander | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Matthew Alexander

Obama's administration announced the creation of an elite inter-agency interrogation team to handle captured high-level intelligence targets.

US Might Create Terror Interrogation Team

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...

FBI Interrogators At Gitmo Acted Like Frat Boys On Spring Break: Female Agent

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...

Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics


Matthew Alexander

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.

U.S. Relying More On Allies In Questioning Terror Suspects

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...

My Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


Matthew Alexander

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.

Obama Ready To Ban Harsh Interrogations

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...

24: A Thriller With Few Surprises

David Danzig | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment


David Danzig

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.

Dems Signal That CIA Agents Won't Be Prosecuted For Harsh Interrogations

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...

Marching Toward Justice on the 217th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


Caroline Fredrickson

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.

Truthfulness, Justice and the American Way

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Paula Gordon

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.

Officials Warned Against Using Snarling Dogs, Forced Nudity During Interrogations, Senate Investigation Finds

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...

Guantanamo Detainees Allege Being Injected With Drugs To Coerce Confessions

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 ...