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WASHINGTON — A former FBI interrogator who questioned al-Qaida prisoners testified Wednesday that the Bush administration falsely boasted of success from extreme techniques like waterboarding, when ...

Today, the ACLU released a 2011 FBI “primer” on overseas interrogation that calls into question whether the FBI is adhering to its own policy prohibiting coercive techniques. The 2011 primer was ...

Saddam Hussein cared more about his place in Iraq's history than the opinion of the citizenry he ruled over, said the former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who led the interrogation of the late ...

If President Obama green-lights a proposal to create an interagency team of interrogators to handle terrorist suspects, it will be — as Samuel Johnson said sardonically of second marriages — the ...

Four men accused of killing 76 people who were watching a 2010 World Cup soccer game on TV in Uganda claim FBI agents beat them up during questioning, the Huffington Post reports. The suspects were ...

A relative of mine who is a pediatrician once said to me, “The patient starts getting better when the doctor walks into the examination room.” There is a psychological life that happens when an ...

Al-Qaeda captive Abu Zubaida, whose interrogation videotapes were destroyed by the CIA, remains the subject of a dispute between FBI and CIA officials over his significance as a terrorism suspect and ...