(PhysOrg.com) -- The author of a new report suggests the belief that harsh interrogation and torture techniques are effective is a form of folk neuroscience that is not supported by scientific ...

Several readers have asked me to provide more information on the Army Field Manual's Appendix M, which sanctions a "restricted" interrogation technique, but which the D.I.A.'s interrogators are using, ...

Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was bloodied and feverish when a CIA security team delivered him to a ...

A slim majority of Americans believe the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the Bush administration were justified but still favor investigation into possible abuses, a new Gallup poll finds.

Before there were “enhanced interrogation techniques,” there was verschärfte Vernehmung, (which means “enhanced interrogation techniques”) developed by the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst in 1937 ...

The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to release a report Tuesday criticizing the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation and detention program. (Update: The report has been released.) The ...

The company behind a controversial police interrogation technique filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Netflix and director Ava DuVernay, claiming that it was defamed in DuVernay’s miniseries on ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Former Congressman Peter Hoekstra was ...

"Enhanced interrogation techniques" is, I suppose, how lawyerly apologists for anything and everything by way of getting information from terrorists comfort themselves. These methods should more aptly ...

2. Attention Grasp – The interrogator grabs the detainee by the collar, with two hands, and pulls him closer in, according to a description of the technique by former CIA acting general counsel John ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the US criminal justice system. One afternoon in January of 2012, a Los Angeles dog ...

When discussing the “science of interrogation,” the following disclaimer is critical: This post will be about the science of humane and ethical interrogation that has the goal of eliciting verifiable, ...