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Waterboarding has been used as a form of torture, a mechanism for extracting information, and a method to coerce individuals accused of committing crimes to confess to these transgressions. Also known ...

Michael Mukasey is now all but sure of winning Senate confirmation as attorney general. But Mukasey's nomination was almost derailed by his refusal to say whether he views the interrogation practice ...

"Using waterboarding as a method of interrogation associates the United States with some of the most notorious regimes in history," he said. The discussion was sponsored by the American Civil ...

Inexcusable Hypocrisy In an appearance on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show, Cenk Uygur doesn't hold back. "We've prosecuted people for waterboarding before," Uygur points out. "After the Spanish-American ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged ...

Donald Trump failed to deliver a campaign vow to restore the post-9/11 practice of waterboarding suspects held in U.S. custody, according to available accounts. An official policy change would require ...

A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other harsh techniques were being used in the interrogation of an ...

(Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave the go-ahead to the CIA for an interrogation program that included the method known as waterboarding in 2002, and Vice President ...

Image of a woodcut depicting waterboarding included in J. Damhoudère's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, Antwerp, 1556. The surprisingly contentious confirmation process of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's ...