The days of physical pain and threats are over in modern day criminal investigations. Interview and interrogation is a critical component in criminal investigations and subsequent prosecutions and has ...

Last month, Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations. Oregon followed suit shortly after, and similar legislation has been introduced over ...

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 ...

Nayeri is the author of the award-winning book The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You and Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough. She is the winner of the UNESCO City of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Following are details and examples about "enhanced" interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration on terrorism suspects held overseas after the September 11 attacks ...

Report says information on bin Laden wasn't found through enhanced interrogation — -- The report released today by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that the most valuable ...

Testimony at Guantánamo Bay shows that C.I.A. black sites, where some detainees were tortured, amounted to test labs for unproven techniques, with shifting rules shaping operations. By Carol Rosenberg ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out prosecuting senior Bush administration officials who provided the legal rationale for harsh interrogation techniques used against ...

I agree with the letter writers who say torture is abhorrent and inhumane, but that is not my main objection to the use of torture, since war itself is inhumane. I object to torture as an ...

Rumsfeld told a Senate committee that Pentagon lawyers had approved methods such as sleep deprivation and dietary changes as well as rules permitting prisoners to be made to assume stress positions.