Central question in furor over CIA tapes: Is waterboarding torture?
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Probes by Attorney General Mukasey and others could help determine how far the controversy reaches.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate the destruction of CIA videotapes showing agents interrogating terrorism suspects. The tapes reportedly showed rough interrogation techniques of two alleged al Qaeda members, including the use of "waterboarding."
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The charges against Sgt. James P. Boland raise questions about who authorized the interrogation methods used in Afghanistan.
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Detaineesâ lawyers had requested a hearing to force the government to explain the destruction of the tapes.
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U.S. President George W. Bush authorized the CIA to give its most detailed public account of its use of a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, the White House said on Wednesday.
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A series of subpoenas issued to reporters as part of the Justice Department's investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity seems more like a tactic of intimidation than legitimate information gathering. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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A federal judge in Washington yesterday ordered a court hearing Friday to examine whether the CIA violated a judicial order by destroying videotapes showing harsh interrogation methods, rebuffing pleas from the Bush administration that he stay out of the matter while the executive branch's own probe...
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United States intelligence officers have taken detainees out of Iraq for interrogation, according to The Washington Post. At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department allegedly compiled a secret memo
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. national intelligence director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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The CIA says it has left its shady past behind. But has the agency learned from its mistakesâand how much has really changed?
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A U.S. judge deciding if the CIA should be held in contempt for destroying video tapes of interrogations of suspected Islamist militants said on Thursday he believed the court had been deceived by the agency.
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogating terrorism suspects are legal and do not include a widely condemned method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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President Bush's confirmation of secret CIA prisons re-ignited controversy Thursday &#151; with European lawmakers demanding the exact locations and other critics saying the system tacitly approves torture.
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The White House on Wednesday defended its response to disclosures about the CIA's destruction of videotapes that showed harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects.
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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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The U.S. government is analyzing a videotape that appears to show Osama bin Laden, according to a U.S. official. The assessment will include whether it is really bin Laden and if the tape is old or new, according to the source.
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. National Intelligence Director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.