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 ...

"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it." ...

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 ...