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They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...
A Justice Department-led task force reviewing interrogation policy is leaning toward the creation of a small, specialized unit drawing personnel from intelligence, military and law enforcement ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military is reaping more high-quality intelligence tips from Iraqi prisoners than ever since it jettisoned several coercive interrogation techniques after the Iraqi prisoner ...
Matthew Alexander led the interrogation team that tracked down al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Alexander, a critic of the harsh techniques employed by the military during the ...
The New York Times is reporting the military has approved a new, classified set of interrogation techniques that may conflict with a proposed ban on torture pushed by Senator John McCain. Military ...
As the world focuses on the World Cup, which opens in Brazil in less than a fortnight, many Brazilians are wrestling with painful discoveries about the military dictatorship that ruled the country ...
And so the bickering begins. Any hope that Congress could have a truly nonpartisan discussion about the CIA’s interrogation techniques were dashed just minutes into the first formal hearing since the ...