On September 11, 2001, the United States learned a tragic lesson -– our shores could no longer keep us safe and our government failed to uncover the murderous plan of terrorists bent on killing ...

1. Memorandum from the Justice Department to CIA providing guidance on twenty permissible interrogation techniques and specifically authorizing "waterboarding" (Aug. 2002) 2. Presidential order ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has released 50 declassified documents detailing its use of brutal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The disclosure ...

Attorney General John Ashcroft's recent testimony that President Bush "made no direct order" authorizing any of the practices photographed at Abu Ghraib prison was calculated to cloak the president ...