Aug. 4-30, 2002: After a prolonged period of isolation, Abu Zubaydah is subjected to near-constant coercive interrogation techniques by CIA officials, including the first application of waterboarding.

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the ...

Senate study says CIA program “was inadequate and deeply flawed.” — -- The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released an exhaustive and explosive report today on the CIA’s ...

The release of the executive summary of the Senate’s report on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program is a belated but important victory of Congressional oversight.

The Bush administration issued secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaida suspects.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote in a foreword to her Senate Intelligence Committee’s report that it should be a warning: “We cannot again allow history to be forgotten and grievous past ...

After watching CIA operatives mime what Rice called "certain physical and psychological interrogation techniques," these leaders, their imaginations stimulated by graphic visions of human ...

Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a report vigorously defending the interrogation tactics employed by the CIA in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist ...

When the CIA destroyed those prisoner interrogation videotapes, were they also destroying the truth about Sept. 11, 2001? After all, according to the 9/11 Commission report, the basic narrative of ...

The annals of history suggest the latter, and in a few passages, so does the report. A big lesson of the Church Committee — Sen. Frank Church’s mid-1970s probe into black-bag jobs ...

Tech & Tactics Weapons Guns The History Of The CIA’s Silent Pistol Of Choice. By Matthew Moss. Updated Dec 10, 2020 8:21 AM EST ...