Did U.S. Special Forces Torture Afghan Civilians?

U.S. Army Special Forces in Kandahar ahead of a nighttime mission, February 2011. Photo: U.S. Army Afghans Claim To Have Video Of U.S. Speci...

Three Former Top Spies Endorse "Zero Dark Thirty's" Version Of Torture

Shock Endorsement: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Wins Raves From Top S pies -- Washington Examiner In a surprising endorsement, three top forme...

Sesame Street Music Used To Torture Detainees At Guantanamo Bay

  Songs of War -- Al Jazeera  We follow a Sesame Street composer as he learns how his music has been used to torture detainees at Guantanamo...

US Intelligence Committee Approves The Report That Finds Harsh CIA Interrogations Are Ineffective

Report Finds Harsh CIA Interrogations Ineffective -- Washington Post After a contentious closed-door vote, the Senate intelligence committee...

Human Rights Watch Accuses The U.S. Of Additional CIA Renditions And Waterboardings

Waterboarding 'More Widespread Than CIA Will Admit' As New Torture Claims Emerge -- Daily Mail * Human Rights Watch report challen...

Human Rights Watch: There Are 27 Torture Centers In Syria

'We Took Their Fingernails Out With Pliers And We Made Them Eat Them. We Made Them Suck Their Own Blood Off The floor': Inside Syria...

How The CIA Broke Accused 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed

Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed appeared at a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay Navy Base in Cuba Saturday. Reuters How We B...

Ex-CIA Head Defends Post-9/11 Tactics

Hard Measures: Ex-CIA Head Defends Post-9/11 Tactics -- CBS 60 Minutes Jose Rodriguez has no regrets about the CIA using "enhanced inte...

President Obama: "Waterboarding" Is Torture

A demonstrator is held down during a simulation of waterboarding outside the Justice Department in Washington in this 2007 photo. Kevin Lama...

Former MI5 Head: 'Waterboarding Worked'

'Waterboarding Worked' Says Former MI5 Head -- The Telegraph The former head of MI5 has said life saving information has been gained...

Human Rights Watch Wants To Prosecute Former President Bush And VP Cheney For Torture

Obama Urged To Investigate Bush Torture Claims -- BBC A campaign group has said the US president should order a criminal investigation into ...

Former Pakistan President Claims Britain Was 'Complicit' In Torture Of Terror Suspects

Claims: Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf believed the UK 'tacitly approved' torture but that was denied by former s...

An Argument Against The Use Of Torture And Its Touted Sucess In the Bush Administration (Book Review)

Counterfactual: A Curious History Of The C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program -- New Yorker On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of...

Beyond Torture: The Future Of Interrogation

Ways of making them talk (Image: Chris Ryan/Getty) From New Scientist: Editorial: Where coercion has failed, why not try persuasion? ABU GH...

Should "Torture" Be Used On The Terrorist Who attempted To Bomb Flight 253. Majority Of Americans Say Yes

58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To Get Information -- Rasmussen Report Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding...

54 Percent of Americans: Torture Often/Sometimes Justified

From The Weekly Standard: The new numbers from Pew have support for torture at a 5 year high, with 19 percent saying torture is "often...

MI5 Chief Jonathan Evans Defends 'Torture Intelligence'

Jonathan Evans, Director-General of MI5. (Manchester Evening News/Reuters) From Times Online: The Director General of MI5 has issued a power...

Report: CIA Interrogations Informed By Bad Science

From Sci-Tech Today: The list of techniques the CIA used included prolonged sleep deprivation -- six days in at least one instance -- being ...

Does Torture Work?

Coercive interrogation techniques used to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful, new research sho...

Did Waterboarding Work On Khalid Sheik Mohammed?

Khalid Sheik Mohammed How A Detainee Became An Asset -- Washington Post Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding After enduring the C...