“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 ...

Nov. 18, 2005 — -- Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since the techniques were first ...

The Senate Intelligence Committee's summary of its report on the CIA's interrogation practices found that the agency "provided inaccurate information to the White House, Congress, the Justice ...

A Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention practices after the Sept. 11, 2o01, attacks concludes that the agency initially kept Secretary of State Colin Powell and some U.S. ambassadors ...

A document detailing interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over 20 years ago to torture al-Qaeda suspects has been declassified and made public. According to a report ...

WASHINGTON — CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who defended harsh interrogation techniques and was involved with the fallout after the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, announced ...

Imagine you are a spy deep undercover and you have to relay a message to another spy without saying a word. Short of telepathy, how could you possibly convey a secret message without anyone realizing ...

WASHINGTON — A controversial torture report by the Senate Intelligence Committee paints a pattern of CIA deception about the effectiveness of waterboarding and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Yesterday the Senate Intelligence Committee ...