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Terrorists are trained to withstand traditional interrogation techniques. Therefore, high-value detainees need harsher techniques to reveal important information. Advanced interrogation techniques ...

The CIA has republished declassified documents relating to Project Artichoke, a top-secret Cold War programme that explored mind control, behaviour modification, and advanced interrogation techniques.

WASHINGTON - A Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks concludes that the agency initially kept the secretary of state and some U.S. ambassadors in the ...

This is a story about two interrogation programs — one run by the U.S. military, the other run by the CIA. The military program was focused on getting important al-Qaida suspects in Iraq to talk. The ...

We may never know the actual details of the U.S. raid that led to Osama bin Laden's death. We do know that Central Intelligence Agency personnel, sometimes using what is referred to as advanced ...

This effort lead to the publication of “A Taxonomy of Interrogation Methods” that differentiated between “macro” level dichotomies such as rapport-based / control-based interrogation, friendly / harsh ...

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 ...