Spy chief defends interrogation tactics
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The nation's spy chief on Sunday would not identify what CIA interrogators are allowed to do in getting information from terror suspects, but tried to assure critics that torture is not condoned or used.
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The outgoing US homeland security chief says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.
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The actions of a key figure in a controversy over destroyed interrogation tapes show the C.I.A.âs protective instinct.
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The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding Â a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror Â qualifies as torture.
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A former Pentagon official on Sunday defended his prewar assessment of a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida, calling it a much-needed critique of the CIA's intelligence on the subject.
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The chairman of the agency that owned the World Trade Center on Monday defended his decision not to ask employees to move into the proposed Freedom Tower at ground zero because of the two attacks on the twin towers.
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PHOENIX -- In the face of congressional pressure over destroying evidence from the Spygate scandal, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended his actions Friday.
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Britain's former spy chief on Wednesday took the rare step of going public to deny that the security services murdered Princess Diana.
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The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected demands from congressional leaders to share information about the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes. In a response letter, he reminded people that, "At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would...resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice."
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A former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp filed a lawsuit against the British government Wednesday, alleging the country's spy agencies knew he was being abused in U.S. custody yet allowed his continued interrogation.
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The CIA spoke with Italy's spy chief about kidnapping terrorism suspects in Italy and flying them abroad days after the September 11 attacks, according to testimony being used to prosecute U.S. and Italian agents.
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President Bush made an impassioned defense of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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The actions of the central figure in a controversy over destroyed interrogation tapes show the protective instinct that runs deep inside the C.I.A.
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A United Nations investigator said on Thursday he strongly suspected the CIA of using torture on terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial.
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The Republican debate in Columbia, South Carolina on May 15 broached the issue of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and torture, and whether or not the use of either is legitimate. &nbsp;Ron Paul and John McCain were the only two in the whole field who called 'enhanced interrogation techniques' a euphemism for torture, and they were the only two who expressly rejected the use of these techniques. Ron Paul at one point accused Brit Hume, a Fox News moderator, as well as the other candidates, of engaging in 'newspeak.' &nbsp; This was a big highlight for me, even though I have, for years, resisted the urge to simply compare Fox News or the Bush administration to the societies described by George Orwell in his novels. I always rejected it as overly simplistic, or as breathless left-wing hysteria on par with 'OMG BUSHITLER' and the like. I must admit however that the exchange was getting pretty surreal until Ron Paul pointed it out. But that was hardly the strangest thing that happened. That would be the exchange between Paul and Giuliani, facilitated by moderator and all-around Fox News hack Wendell Goler. Paul comported himself well in spite of the openly hostile treatment by Fox News and some of his opponents, notching 2nd place in the Fox News text message poll. This is notable because Paul's positions on almost every issue stand in stark contrast to those of his opponents. Links, transcript, and some thoughts below the fold, with a poll.
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President Bushâs nominee to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department refused to say whether he considered the interrogation technique to be âtorture.â