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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 ...

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 ...

In the years following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the debate over torture largely came to take place within the context of waterboarding. Nearly two decades after the attacks, there ...

Donald Trump thinks the United States isn't demonstrating its strength enough in the fight against the Islamic State. One of his proposed solutions as president is to revive waterboarding, an enhanced ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...