WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The contentious debate over so-called enhanced interrogation techniques took center stage Wednesday on ...

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Review of Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. By Shane O’Mara. Harvard University Press. 322 pp. $29.95 CIA records describe the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the ...

James Mitchell defended his work for the CIA during the war on terror. The psychologist credited with devising the C.I.A.'s program of "enhanced interrogation" during ...

Robert Siegel talks to Peter "Pete" Hoekstra, who was chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2004-2007. He talks about the Senate... Former Congressman: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Can ...

As this week’s TIME cover story details, the movie Zero Dark Thirty has unleashed a controversy over the extent to which torture, or “enhanced interrogation techniques,” were used in the decade-long ...