The nation’s top CIA lawyer after the September 11 attacks, John Rizzo, the man who convinced the Bush administration to sign off on waterboarding techniques that simulate drowning, says he has no ...

NORRISTOWN — An Abington Township couple were convicted of conspiring in a scheme to discipline the woman’s 11-year-old daughter with a waterboarding technique that impeded the child’s ability to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A former congressman possibly being considered for the top job in the CIA under President-elect Trump said he would support a “clear discussion” on using waterboarding and other torture techniques in ...

Jan 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched an investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects in 2002. Among the techniques ...

CIA Director John Brennan promised that the US spy agency won't use so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques, including waterboarding, against terror suspects ...

NORRISTOWN — An Abington Township couple will be permitted to remain free on bail while they appeal their convictions and jail terms for conspiring in a scheme to discipline the woman’s 11-year-old ...

(Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave the go-ahead to the CIA for an interrogation program that included the method known as waterboarding in 2002, and Vice President ...