In past wars, captured American pilots were subjected to extreme hardship and used for propaganda purposes. Today, the US Air ...

Word came yesterday that House Democrats are still seeking more once-classified documents about the Bush Administration’s harsh interrogation program–in this case, the May 2005 memo by a State ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military agency that trains troops to resist and survive torture offered crucial help in developing harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA, according to a Senate report to ...

The program began with leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training.

In combat, all troops face a risk of being captured, and the rules regarding their treatment while in captivity are often ignored. The US military has a courses of varying complexity and intensity to ...

The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach them the same types of abusive ...

Mr. MIKE RITZ (Senior Interrogation Instructor, Team Delta): Right. I was attached to the SERE school in the U.S. Army. And then in 1997, I started my own private company that was a simulated version ...

Newly released notes from one of the architects of the Bush-Cheney torture program have shown that the scale and ambition of the torture camps at Gitmo and elsewhere might have been greater than we ...

Opponents of last week’s release of memos detailing CIA interrogation techniques argue that they will provide enemies of the United States with a training manual to prepare their operatives for ...

“SERE [Survival Evasion Resistance Escape] was the best training I’ve had. It prepared me for marriage.” — Chuck Kasinger, U.S. Navy officer [ret], War Criminal No. 48, and Bruce Willis’ stunt-double.

The Central Intelligence Agency repeatedly tortured suspected terrorists, regularly lied about it to Congress and the White House, and, for all the pain and trouble this caused the agency and the ...