WASHINGTON - A Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks concludes that the agency initially kept the secretary of state and some U.S. ambassadors in the ...

“This debate is about more than legality. It is also about morality, the way we see ourselves … and what we represent to the world.” The legislation bars the CIA from using waterboarding, sensory ...

President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after ...

In December of 2014, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released a tell-all report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) detainment and interrogation of suspected terrorists, concluding ...

LANGLEY, Va. (Reuters) - CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sept. 11 attacks and said it was "unknowable" ...

Former agent tells media waterboarding used on a top al-Qaida figure saved lives. WASHINGTON — The CIA’s waterboarding of a top al-Qaida figure was approved at the top levels of the U.S. government, a ...

President Bush's push this week for legislation that narrowly defines U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions is motivated by his aides' conviction that the CIA must continue using a small ...

The debate over CIA interrogation methods goes back a long way. Some examples: James Angleton's 1963 instructions on what's acceptable, and Yuri Nosenko, a former double agent for the KGB and the CIA.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, had detailed, contemporaneous knowledge of the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on captured terrorism ...

Foiled UK terror plots were falsely held up by America's CIA as proof that its "brutal" torture tactics had saved lives, a US intelligence watchdog has said. In a ...